asked the Minister for Local Government whether he is aware that a deputation from the Annascaul Development Association appeared before the County Commissioner for Kerry, at his sitting in December last, to call attention to the urgent need for a water and sewerage scheme for Annascaul; if he is further aware that a pump, erected about 15 years ago in the village by the board of health, ceased to function after three months, and that since then the people of the locality have been depending for water on a private well which is very often polluted; and whether, in view of this serious position, he will state if his Department have received any proposals from the county council to have a scheme carried out in the near future.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Annascaul (County Kerry) Water Scheme.
I have been informed by the Commissioner for Kerry County Council that last month he received a deputation from Annascaul in regard to a water supply and sewerage scheme for that village. Schemes for Annascaul were not included among the ten schemes reported by the county medical officer of health last May as being those most urgently needed in Kerry. In a comprehensive report made in 1944 on all water and sewerage schemes to be undertaken in the Kerry County Health District, Annascaul occupied eleventh place among water supplies. While it has been intimated that the Annascaul water supply will be included in a list of works which it is hoped to carry out with the aid of grants from the Transitional Development Fund, no plans in connection with the scheme have been furnished to my Department. The provision of a sewerage scheme could not be considered until such time as a piped water supply is available.