Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 304: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding sought by Kildare County Council from his Department for the provision of group or regional water schemes in the county; if a submission has been made to him in respect of the Balyna group or regional scheme; if final costing has been determined; if he has proposals to approve the necessary funds in early date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10816/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Proposals valued at €2.4m were submitted to my Department by Kildare County Council in the context of the Council's application for block grant funding under the 2007 Rural Water Programme. The proposals did not include the Ballyna Group Water Scheme.

The Ballyna Regional Water Supply Scheme was ranked as fifth priority in the list of 19 water and sewerage schemes valued at €81.9m that were submitted by Kildare County Council in response to my Department's request to local authorities last year to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of the assessments. The priorities adopted by the members of Kildare County Council will be taken into account in the framing of the next phase of my Department's Water Services Investment Programme.