Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 December 2004
391 Mr. McCormack asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of sewerage schemes for Oughterard, Headford, Cormamona, Leenane and Claregalway, County Galway. [33094/04]
View answerThe Oughterard sewerage scheme is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2004-2006 to commence construction in 2005. My Department is awaiting the submission of Galway County Council's preliminary report for the scheme.
The Headford sewerage scheme has also been approved for construction in the programme and my Department is awaiting submission of the Council's tender recommendations for this scheme. The Leenane sewerage scheme has been approved for construction in the programme under the rural towns and villages initiative. Galway County Council's tender documents for the wastewater treatment plant for this and a number of other locations in the county being advanced as grouped design-build-operate contract are being examined in my Department and will be dealt with as quickly as possible. The council's tender recommendation in respect of the collection system for the Leenane scheme will be further considered on receipt of additional information requested from the council in October.
The Claregalway sewerage scheme is included in the programme to start construction in 2006. An element of the scheme relating to the provision of wastewater services for new residential development has been approved for funding under the serviced land initiative component of the programme. A brief for the appointment of a client's representative to prepare contract documents for the Claregalway scheme and a number of others in the county is under examination in my Department and will be dealt with as quickly as possible.
The Cornamona sewerage scheme was included as a post 2006 requirement in the list of sewerage schemes submitted by Galway County Council in response to my Department's request to local authorities in 2003 to produce updated assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of the assessments. The assessments were taken into account in the framing of the Water Services Investment Programme 2004-2006 published in May 2004. Given the rating afforded to the scheme by the council, it has not been possible to include it in the current programme.
