Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 27 May 2004
211 Mr. Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position of an application for the provision of a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16115/04]
Amharc ar fhreagraIn January 2001, my Department approved Kildare County Council's application in respect of a proposed sewerage scheme at Rathangan under the serviced land initiative. The council subsequently requested the inclusion of the proposal as a major capital project in the water services investment programme where it would attract a higher level of departmental funding.
The proposal was ranked fourth in the list of waste water schemes submitted by Kildare County Council in November 2003 in response to my Department's request to local authorities to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital water services works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of the assessments. The priority lists were taken into account in the framing of the water services investment programme 2004-06 which I published last month. Due to the priority afforded to the scheme by the council, it has not been possible to include it in the programme. However, the approval of the scheme under the serviced land initiative remains in place.
