Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 May 2017
209. Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of funding for a group wastewater scheme in Kilmacredock, County Kildare; the timeframe and likelihood of the scheme being progressed to completion; and if other funding is available for the scheme. [22677/17]
View answerKildare County Council included a proposed Kilmacreddock/Barrogstown Group Sewerage Scheme in their 2013, 2014 and 2015 requests for funding under my Department's Rural Water Programme. My Department approved a grant of €12,493 under the 2014 programme for a Feasibility Study on the proposed scheme. 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 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.
