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

I have brought forward the unserved villages. I expect to make announcements in the short term around that; it is the first €50 million outside of the capital programme for Irish Water. I visited Shannonvale with the Deputy. The situation there is intolerable. I have been back to Uisce Éireann. It will provide the stage 1 strategic assessment, which will move it on to stage 2, but the local authority to engage on this. Some solution has got to be found in the short-term for homeowners, whom I had the pleasure of meeting with the Deputy.

We have made a lot of progress in west Cork. The Deputy has outlined a number of the schemes we have brought forward. I will continue to work with him and the residents of Shannon Vale. I am acutely aware that I met them on the ground. We are trying to bring Uisce Éireann, the local authority and the Department together on this because the situation is absolutely intolerable. A public playground in the area is closed because of the leakage, effectively, of sewage into the vicinity. That situation should not be allowed to continue.

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