Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 427: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received any submission from Kildare County Council requiring funding for group or small schemes to provide sewerage facilities for houses at Ballinafagh Road, Prosperous, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7037/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I published details of the block grant allocations to county councils under the 2005 rural water programme on 16 February. I have allocated €1 million to Kildare County Council for the construction of new group water and sewerage schemes and the upgrading or extension of existing schemes. I have also allocated €650,000 to the council under the 2005 programme for small public water and sewerage schemes. In accordance with the devolution of functions to local authorities under the rural water programme, it is a matter for Kildare County Council to determine the schemes to be funded from its 2005 block grant allocations.