Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 April 2024

Committee on Public Petitions

Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion

Mr. Thomas Carney:

Yes. We were advised that one of the grants was allocated to us. The figure was more than €90,000 but we are not sure what happened to all the money. Here is why. Multiple surveys have been done for environmental, mapping and everything else that goes with working with a village, but they scrapped it and started off from square one. Just last week, we were advised that a new survey is being done on everything we did three years ago. They are starting from scratch once again. We were asked if we would help with a survey when we had done 90% of it the last time. We said “No”. We asked what happened to the last survey but we cannot get an answer. They are now sending down a team from some consulting firm in Dublin to do the study and work on the village again.