Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 357: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to increase the grant per house of €6,500 for funding of group water schemes. [24162/04]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Grants of up to 100% of approved cost are available to privately sourced group water schemes for the provision of essential water treatment and disinfection facilities. Grants of up to 85% of cost are available for related civil works, such as buildings, reservoirs and pipelines, for works associated with connecting a group scheme to a local authority water main, and for the provision and upgrading of group water schemes generally. All grants are subject to a maximum eligible cost of €7,618 per house. While I am keeping the grant levels under continuing review in consultation with the national rural water monitoring committee and the national federation of group water schemes, there are no proposals at present for an increase.