Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 547: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will include the upgrade of a sewerage system at a village (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in the water services investment programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35372/07]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The Clogh Village Sewerage Scheme was 5th on the list of sewerage schemes submitted by Kilkenny County Council in response to my Department's request to all local authorities in 2006 to undertake assessments of needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of these assessments. These assessments were taken into account in the preparation of the Water Services Investment Programme 2007-2009, which I published on 17 September 2007 and which is available in the Oireachtas Library. Given the level of competing demands for the available funding, and the priorities identified by the elected members of Kilkenny County Council, it was not possible to include the Clogh scheme in the current Programme.