Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1504: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount offered or sought by Kildare County Council in respect of group water schemes; the number of such schemes likely to proceed on foot of same; if costings have been submitted to his Department for approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29171/06]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1506: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount available for group water schemes in County Kildare at present; if this will facilitate a scheme (details supplied) in County Kildare in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29173/06]

Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 1526: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of applications for funding received by his Department for the provision of water and sewerage installations for Kildare for the past year; the amount of funding allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29405/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1504, 1506 and 1526 together.

I have allocated €2.327m to Kildare County Council for 2006 under the devolved Rural Water Programme which I understand, should be sufficient to meet all expenditure likely to arise this year in respect of the Council's current work programme. It will be a matter for the Council to determine whether provision is made for the Ballyna group water scheme in the work programme it submits to my Department for the purposes of the 2007 allocations.

Insofar as public water and sewerage schemes are concerned, I am arranging to forward to the Deputy details of the schemes identified by Kildare County Council in response to my Department's request to all local authorities in March 2006 to produce updated assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of the assessments. This assessment is the Council's most up to date and complete statements to my Department of its water and sewerage infrastructure proposals and will be taken into account in the framing of he next phase of the Water Services Investment Programme.

Expenditure by local authorities in respect of schemes approved under the Water Services Investment Programme is recouped on an individual project basis and recoupments to Kildare County Council to date in 2006 amount to €20.7 million.