The Gort Regional Water Supply Scheme, including the treatment plant, is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2007-2009 as a scheme to start construction in 2009 at an estimated cost of €35.1m. My Department is awaiting Galway County Council's Design Review Report for the scheme.
The Gort Sewerage Scheme was fourteenth on the list of sewerage schemes submitted to my Department by Galway County Council in its most recent assessment of needs for water services capital works. The assessment was taken into account in framing the Water Services Investment Programme 2007-2009. Given the level of competing demands for available funding, and the priorities identified by the elected members of Galway County Council, it was not possible to include the Gort scheme in the current Programme. Funding for water and sewerage facilities, which are now completed, for new housing in Gort was provided by my Department under the Serviced Land Initiative.