Written answers

Thursday, 17 April 2008

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Water and Sewerage Schemes

5:00 pm

Photo of Willie PenroseWillie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 666: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when Longford County Council will be allowed to proceed to the contract document stage to enable them to provide a much needed sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Longford, as the sewerage scheme is totally inadequate to cater for the population of the area; if he will take steps to have same expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14563/08]

Photo of John GormleyJohn Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The Kenagh and Legan Sewerage Scheme was ranked fourth on the list of water and sewerage schemes submitted by Longford 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 Longford County Council, I regret that it was not possible to include the Kenagh and Legan Scheme in the current Programme.

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