Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have given the Deputy a number of real examples of what we are doing there. I have also said that I will be making announcements on the rural towns and villages sewerage scheme before Easter this year. They include schemes in Limerick. These are being assessed right now by the Environmental Protection Agency, by my Department and by Uisce Éireann. This provides additionality that is outside of Irish Water's own capital programme. For the first time, Uisce Éireann did need to see that they had the security of a multiannual programme. It knows it has the capital between now and 2026. That is why we are seeing the ramping up of the delivery of much needed infrastructure right across the counties in the Republic including Limerick. Limerick county is not forgotten about by this Government. I can absolutely assure the Deputy of that. My Government colleagues, the Ministers of State, Deputy Niall Collins, Deputy Kieran O'Donnell, and Deputy Patrick O'Donovan, and Deputy O'Donoghue, will ensure that this is kept to the forefront of the agenda. I will be making announcements with regard to those schemes before Easter.

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