Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 513: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that the contract documents for the waste water treatment plant for the Skibbereen sewerage scheme, which is part of a grouped project with schemes for Baltimore, Ballylickey, Dunmanway and Schull, will now proceed; and if he will provide an estimate of the time frame involved. [8307/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Skibbereen Sewerage Scheme has been approved for funding in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2005-2007 at an estimated cost of €13.4 million. The wastewater treatment plant for the town is being procured as part of the West Cork Grouped Design, Build and Operate (DBO) Scheme that also included Baltimore, Ballylickey, Dunmanway and Schull. However, following notification from Cork County Council that Ballylickey is being removed from the grouped project because the Council has been unable to acquire the preferred site, my Department is now awaiting submission of revised Contract Documents for the treatment plants for the other locations. The Council is advancing the collection systems as separate contracts in each case.