Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 November 2004
186 Mr. Hogan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the upgrade of a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will receive the necessary approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29510/04]
View answerProposals for a wastewater scheme to serve Glenmore were ranked sixteenth in the list of wastewater schemes submitted by Kilkenny County Council in December 2003 in response to my Department's request to all local authorities 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 priority lists were taken into account in the framing of my Department's water services investment programme 2004-06 published in May 2004. Given the ranking afforded to the scheme by the council, it has not been possible to include it in the current programme. However, it would be open to the council itself to consider funding the scheme, estimated to cost €0.15 million, under the small schemes measure of the devolved rural water programme.
