Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 599: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department provides any, all or none of the funding to local authorities for group or small sewerage schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4812/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Funding for the Rural Water Programme, which includes an element for small public water and sewerage schemes, is provided by my Department to county councils through annual block grant allocations. The prioritisation and approval of individual proposals under the Programme is a matter for the council concerned.