Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The NRP refers to investment in infrastructure. One of the most basic infrastructural needs of any town or village is adequate wastewater treatment. I want to bring to the Taoiseach's attention the village of Shannonvale. The park in Shannonvale, which was used by children and families to play, now is unsafe because of excrement essentially coming up through the surface. There is a need to invest in the wastewater infrastructure there. The Government announced two programmes that local authorities can apply to. One involves development-led infrastructure, where that would be replaced, which can be sourced by local authorities. The other relates for villages that do not currently have access to adequate wastewater. Cork County Council had an opportunity to apply for funding from both of these programmes. In the case of Shannonvale, it did not apply. That beggars belief in view of the scenes that I have described. Will the Taoiseach investigate why Cork County Council did not include Shannonvale on its list for either of these schemes in order to resolve the problem to which I refer?

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