Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 554: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the €6.5 million Ennis water filtration plant will be complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26593/05]

Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 555: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to subsidise bottled drinking water for the people of Ennis while the current e.coli scare in the public drinking supply continues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26594/05]

Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 556: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to fast track the Ennis water filtration plant project. [26595/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 554 to 556, inclusive, together.

The Ennis town water supply treatment scheme has been approved for funding in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2004-2006 with a view to work commencing as soon as possible.

I recently approved Clare County Council's tender documents for the scheme. Subject to some necessary amendments to the documents and the submission of a certificate of completion of planning to my Department, it is open to the council to invite tenders from an existing panel of short listed contractors. Arrangements for meeting consumers' water supply requirements during any temporary service interruptions are a matter for the local authority.