asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state the cause of the delay in sanctioning the contract documents sent to his Department in August last by the Cork County Council for the erection of a submersible pump at Taur, New-market, County Cork.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Erection of Submersible Pump at Taur (Cork).
There was no delay in dealing with this matter so far as my Department was concerned. The period between the original submission of the proposal at the end of August and of a revised proposal at the end of November was occupied by correspondence between an engineering inspector of the Department and the council's engineer, as a result of which a simpler type of pump is being provided at a considerably reduced estimated cost. The revised proposal has been sanctioned.