Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 256: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the timescale involved in having a town (details supplied) in County Donegal equipped with a sewerage treatment facility in view of European Directives and the fact that raw sewerage is being pumped into the river; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34461/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The Moville/Greencastle Sewerage Scheme is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2007-2007 as a scheme to begin construction in 2009. My Department is awaiting submission of Donegal County Council's Preliminary Report for the scheme.

Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 257: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to raise the group sewerage scheme grant to the same level as that of the group water scheme to help reduce the instances of septic tanks and increase the protection of water courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34462/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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My Department has funded a pilot programme, put forward by the National Rural Water Monitoring Committee, to test a range of new, small-scale wastewater collection and treatment systems under Irish conditions. The objective of the pilot programme is to evaluate new approaches to meeting the wastewater collection and treatment needs of rural communities and to examine the potential role for group sewerage schemes in extending collection systems to households outside the catchment of new or existing public sewerage networks.

New infrastructure under the pilot programme has now been commissioned and its performance is being monitored and evaluated. The National Rural Water Monitoring Committee has been asked to report to me on the results as they become available and will be reassessing the grants for group sewerage schemes in light of the outcome.