Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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2256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he will publish legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Charges; and if this legislation will deal with the issue of ensuring financial equity to those in group and private water schemes. [28931/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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The report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services was published on 12 April 2017 and approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas. The Government approved the priority drafting of a Bill to give effect to relevant recommendations set out in the Committee's report on 30 May 2017. My Department is working with the Attorney General's Office on the drafting of the Bill with a view to it being published as soon as possible.

The Committee recommended that there should be equity of treatment and equivalent financial support between households on public water supplies and those in Group Schemes or using private supplies. When the details of the legislation are finalised, my Department will work with the National Federation of Group Water Schemes to ensure that households who do not receive public water services receive equivalent support to those that do.