Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 197: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be provided for a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Mayo. [24170/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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A sewerage scheme to serve Binghamstown was forty-sixth on the list of water and sewerage schemes submitted by Mayo 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 preparing the Water Services Investment Programme 2007 -2009. However, given the level of competing demands for the available funding, and the priorities identified by the elected members of Mayo County Council, it was not possible to include the Binghamstown scheme in the current Programme.

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 198: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be approved for a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Mayo; the position of same; if funding has been approved to date; the estimated cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24171/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The combined Belmullet and Foxford Sewerage Scheme is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2007-2009 as a scheme to start construction in 2009 at an estimated cost of €21.42m.

My Department has approved Mayo County Council's Preliminary Reports for the scheme. The Council's brief for the appointment of consultants to prepare Tender Documents for the waste water treatment plants is being examined in the Department and is being dealt with as quickly as possible. Contract Documents for the collection networks are awaited from the Council.