Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1522: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he proposes to approve and fund Kildare County Council's plans to upgrade the sewerage treatment plant at Sallins, County Kildare, details of which have been with his Department for the past two years; if his attention has been drawn to the need to respond positively in view of the imminent danger of pollution arising from the fact that the existing system is obsolete and incapable of catering for the current and future population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2545/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has no proposals from Kildare County Council for the upgrading of the existing wastewater treatment plant at Sallins. However, the upper Liffey Valley sewerage scheme, stage 3, extension to Osberstown, which has been approved for construction under the Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2005-2007, provides for the extension and upgrading of the wastewater treatment plant at Osberstown and the connection of the towns of Naas, Johnstown, Kill, Newbridge, Kilcullen, Prosperous, Clane and Sallins to the extended plant.

Kildare County Council's revised preliminary report and water services pricing policy report for the scheme are under examination in my Department and are being dealt with as quickly as possible. Once these reports have been approved the council will be in a position to prepare contract documents with a view to inviting tenders for the scheme.