Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 217: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the grants available for the maintenance of private water pumps and wells; if assistance is available for the provision of a new system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9641/10]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Rural Water Programme, grant aid of €2,031.58 per house or 75% of the approved cost, whichever is the lesser, is available for the provision or necessary improvement of an individual water supply to a house that does not have access to either a public or group water scheme supply.

Responsibility for the administration of the Rural Water Programme was devolved to local authorities in 1997. Under the devolved arrangements, the approval and payment of grants is a matter for the relevant local authority.