Water and Sewerage Scheme Grants

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 8 October 2014

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Ceisteanna (216)

Dara Calleary

Ceist:

216. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the grants that are available for persons seeking to drill for water wells on their own land. [38349/14]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government

Grants of 75% of the approved costs or €2,031.58, whichever is the lesser, are available under my Department’s Rural Water Programme for the provision or necessary improvement of an individual water supply in a house.

Details of the conditions applying to the grants scheme, including the type of works that may qualify, can be obtained from local authorities, to whom responsibility for the administration of the Rural Water Programme has been devolved since 1997.