Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 29 June 2016
118. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when his Department last received a submission from Kildare County Council in respect of the group water scheme at Kilmacraddock-Barrogstown in County Kildare; if he has accorded priority to the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18782/16]
View answerMy Department approved a grant to Kildare County Council for a Feasibility Study on the proposed Kilmacreddock/Barrogstown Group Sewerage Scheme in 2014. However, the Study, in its recommendations, stated that the preferred and least cost option was to upgrade the individual on-site wastewater treatment systems (septic tank or similar systems) and the estimated cost of this option would far exceed €14,000 per house. The approach proposed in the Study is not fundable under my Department’s Group Sewerage Grant Scheme and Kildare County Council was informed accordingly.
Kildare County Council did not include this scheme in its bid for funding under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme 2016-2018.
