Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress to date on the serviced land initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16423/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The objective of the serviced land initiative is to provide water and wastewater services, primarily as extensions of existing water and sewerage schemes, to increase the supply of serviced land to meet residential development needs. The target number of serviced sites when the scheme was introduced was 100,000.

To date, approximately 300 serviced land initiative schemes have been approved under my Department's water services investment programme. Over 200 schemes, providing services for over 154,000 housing units, had been either been completed or were at construction at 30 December 2004. By the end of this year a total of 260 schemes are expected to be completed or at construction, representing 200,000 sites.