Written answers
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Water Quality
5:00 pm
Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 235: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the continuing partial boil notice on the public water supply in Ennis, County Clare, and that this boil notice is to remain until a permanent water treatment plant is built; his views on allocating funding to the local authority in order to introduce a subsidised bottled water scheme to those dependant on the Ennis water supply until such time as the permanent water treatment plant is operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5846/08]
Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 236: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will honour in full the pre-election promise and allocate Clare County Council and Ennis Town Council the money required to pay for the temporary water treatment plant for the Ennis water supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5847/08]
John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 235 and 236 together.
The Ennis Town Water Supply (Treatment) Scheme is being funded under my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2007-2009 and will provide a new water treatment plant for the town. I understand that the scheme is now under construction. Special Local Government Fund assistance has been made available in 2006 and 2007 to assist Clare County Council in meeting the domestic share of the operational costs of the temporary water treatment plant put in place in Ennis pending completion of the substantive scheme. Consideration will be given to a further such allocation in 2008. It is a matter for Clare County Council, as the water services authority, to determine whether exceptional arrangements are necessary to meet the requirements of the limited categories of consumers affected by any continuing requirement to boil drinking water.
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