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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 30 Jan 2002

Vol. 547 No. 1

Written Answers. - Water and Sewerage Schemes.

Phil Hogan

Ceist:

799 Mr. Hogan asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if funding will be made available for the upgrading of the Gowran-Goresbridge-Paulstown water scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2556/02]

Contract documents for this scheme, submitted to my Department by Kilkenny County Council in the mid-1980s and revised in February 2001, have not been approved. Elements of the scheme were included in the list of water and sewerage schemes submitted by the council in response to my Department's request to local authorities to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of these assessments. The priority lists were taken into account in the framing of the water services investment programme, 2000-02, announced in July 2000. Because of the level of competing demand, the limited funding available, and the need to prioritise individual proposals on a national basis, it has not been possible to include the scheme in the programme.

Phil Hogan

Ceist:

800 Mr. Hogan asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if he has received an application from Kilkenny County Council to upgrade the Bennettsbridge water supply scheme in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2557/02]

Proposals relating to the Bennettsbridge water supply scheme were included in the list of water and sewerage schemes submitted by Kilkenny County Council in response to my Department's request to local authorities to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of these assessments. The priority lists were taken into account in the framing of the water services investment programme, 2000-02, announced in July 2000. Because of the level of competing demand, and the need to prioritise individual proposals on a national basis, it has not been possible to include the scheme in the programme.

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