Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)
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Question 685: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the Oughterard sewerage scheme; the progress made on this scheme to date; the date by which he expects and anticipates this work to have been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23876/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Oughterard sewerage scheme has been approved for construction in my Department's water services investment programme 2004-06. My Department is awaiting submission of Galway County Council's preliminary report for the scheme for approval.

Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 686: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 468 of 31 May 2005 if he will commit to providing funding in the 2006 estimates to ensure that the recommendations of the greater Dublin strategic drainage study can be acted upon by the local authorities concerned; the funding currently available under his Department's water services investment programme 2004-06; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23878/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The greater Dublin strategic drainage strategy study report was recently submitted to my Department and is currently being examined. Proposals in the report for new water services infrastructure will be considered for inclusion in my Department's water services investment programme. Details of water services schemes currently approved for funding by my Department are set out in the water services investment programme 2004-06 which is available in the Oireachtas Library.