Christy O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 651: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is a request for funding presently with his Department for a sewerage scheme in Drinagh, County Cork. [14305/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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A sewerage scheme to serve Drinagh was ranked twenty first on the list of water and sewerage schemes submitted by Cork County Council in response to my Department's request to local authorities in 2006 to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of these assessments. The priority lists were taken into account in preparing the Water Services Investment Programme 2007-2009 which I published in September 2007 and which is available in the Oireachtas Library. Given the level of competing demand for available funding and the priorities identified by the elected members of Cork County Council, I regret that it was not possible to include the Drinagh scheme in the current Programme.