Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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Question 1863: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the towns both above and below 2000 in population that do not comply with article 4 of Directive 91/271/EEC urban waste water directive. [1987/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Article 4 of EU Council Directive 91/271/EEC requires secondary treatment of urban wastewater discharges arising after 31 December 2005 from agglomerations above a population equivalent of 2,000 in the case of fresh or estuarial waters and 10,000 in the case of coastal waters. All remaining infrastructural schemes required in this context are approved for funding in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2005-2007. The agglomerations concerned are set out in the table.

The position regarding discharges from agglomerations below a population equivalent of 2000 is set out in the EPA's Urban Waste Water Discharges in Ireland — A Report for the Years 2002/2003, which is available in the Oireachtas Library.