Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 31 March 2004
205 Ms B. Moynihan-Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the proposals his Department has to provide funding to Kerry County Council for the upgrading of the sewerage scheme in Ballydavid County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10129/04]
View answerProposed sewerage works in Ballydavid have been identified in the list of water and sewerage schemes submitted by Kerry County Council in response to my Department's request to all local authorities in 2003 to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of the assessments. The Ballydavid proposal is included in phase 3 of a village sewerage refurbishment programme ranked as fifth in the council's priority list. Phase 3 relates to locations with populations of less than 500.
The council's assessment of needs will be taken into account in the framing of the next phase of my Department's water services investment programme in due course. In the meantime, it would be open to the council itself to consider funding the proposal, estimated to cost €30,000, under the small schemes measure of the devolved rural water programme.
