Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am going to move on now to the next slot, which is mine.

I am pleased to see rural water schemes being mentioned by the Minister in his opening statement. They are a critically important aspect of water quality that we need to address. I have several examples of areas that were rural but have now become urban because the urban footprint has grown around these rural houses, some of them estate-type houses that would have been built with individual wastewater treatment systems. Is the rural water programme applicable in those situations or is there a separate type of programme for such developments?