Water Services.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 21 January 2010

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Ceisteanna (47)

Joe Costello

Ceist:

39 Deputy Joe Costello asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the amount allocated for capital investment in water services in the budgets of 2008 and 2009; the amount actually spent; the amount returned, if any, to his Department unspent; the amount that has been spent on works carried out using the allocation for capital investment in water services in 2008 and 2009; the progress that has been made in upgrading the water services infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2450/10]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Deputy John Gormley)

The allocations and expenditure outturns for 2008 and 2009 in respect of Exchequer funded investment in water services infrastructure, together with the estimated additional expenditure incurred directly by local authorities to meet the marginal capital costs associated with the provision of services to the non-domestic sector are set out in the following table.

There was continued good progress on the provision of water services infrastructure in 2008 and 2009, with over 80 schemes/contracts coming to completion during that time. Data for 2008 show an increase in treatment capacity equivalent to a population of 367,195 in the case of wastewater and 77,308 in the case of water supply. Similar data in relation to 2009 are not yet available.

Year	Exchequer Allocation	Exchequer Outturn	Est. Non-Exchequer Expenditure
	€m	€m	€m
2008	471.374	496.374	115.000
2009	500.000	512.000	130.000