Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps the Deputy and I will have a chance to discuss this outside the Chamber so we can get clarity between ourselves as to the chronology. However, since I became Minister with responsibility for water, I have done a lot of work with the National Federation of Group Water Schemes. I have attended its annual conference and have met its representatives in a number of different formats to discuss how we can continue to make sure there is a safe, clean and adequate drinking water supply and waste water system in every part of the country. To that end, in April last year I established a working group to conduct a review of the wider investment needs relating to the rural water services sector. At the end of last year, I received the group's first report, which addresses deliberations on the composition and distribution of funding for the multi-annual rural water programmes from this year to 2021. I will shortly announce details of that programme, which are basically the priority for the next three years of the funding cycle, and that will also include details of a revised individual wells grant, which will be relevant to people in Balyna insofar as we know at the moment that the scheme is not being progressed.

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