Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 509: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a new sewerage scheme for a village (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27183/04]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has received no proposals from Kildare County Council in relation to a sewerage scheme at Kilberry, Athy, County Kildare. Neither were such proposals included in the list of schemes submitted by Kildare County Council in November 2003 in response to my Department's request to all local authorities to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of the assessments. The priority lists were taken into account in the framing of the Water Services Investment Programme 2004-2006 published in May 2004.

Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 510: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there are schemes or grants available to persons seeking connection to new sewerage schemes installed by local authorities; if such connections should be financed by the local authorities which install the schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27184/04]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Grants are not available for connections to local authority waste water collection systems and there are no proposals to introduce such a scheme. The arrangements relating to individual connections are a matter for the individual and the local authority concerned.