Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 476: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Mayo County Council have made an application for funding to extend the Westport sewerage scheme; the areas of Westport which have applied for same. [17889/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has not received a proposal from Mayo County Council about any extension of the Westport sewerage scheme, which was commissioned in 2003. No such proposal was included in the list of water and sewerage schemes submitted by the council in response to the 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. It is open to the council to consider funding extensions of the scheme to service new areas under the small schemes measure of the devolved rural water programme, for which the council receives an annual block grant allocation from the Department.