Written answers

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Water and Sewerage Schemes

10:00 am

Photo of Pat BreenPat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 508: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 978 of the 3 November 2009; the position regarding a project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29754/10]

Photo of John GormleyJohn Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2012, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas Library, provides for the development of a comprehensive range of new water services infrastructure in County Clare. The Programme includes contracts under construction and to commence to the value of some €38 million in the county during the period of the Programme. While the Corofin Sewerage Scheme is included in the Programme amongst the list of contracts in the county at construction in the period 2010 to 2012, it was not possible to include the Ballyvaughan and Doolin Sewerage Schemes amongst the priority contracts and schemes selected for inclusion.

The new Programme prioritises projects that target environmental compliance issues and support economic and employment growth as envisaged in the Government's policy document Building Ireland's Smart Economy – A Framework for Sustainable Economic Renewal. A key input to the development of the Programme was the assessment of needs prepared by local authorities, including Clare County Council, in response to my Department's request to the authorities in 2009 to review and prioritise their proposals for new capital works in their areas. These were subsequently appraised in my Department in the context of the funds available and key criteria that complemented those used by the authorities. Inevitably, through this process, certain projects that had been proposed had to give way to others that are more strategically important at this time.

Photo of Denis NaughtenDenis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 509: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 621 of 1 November 2006, the status of these regional water schemes; when he will approve funding for the projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29760/10]

Photo of John GormleyJohn Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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A comprehensive range of new water services infrastructure has been approved for County Roscommon in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2010 -2012, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas Library. The Programme provides for the commencement of a number of contracts in the period 2010-2012 to improve the water supply infrastructure in the county with a total value of some €34 million.

Of those contracts, the Arigna, Boyle/Ardcarne (Phase 2), Roscommon Central and South Roscommon Regional Water Supply Schemes are being advanced as a single project by Roscommon County Council. Under this project, the Council will upgrade the networks under the Arigna and Boyle/Ardcarne Schemes and provide four new water treatment plants, with the network upgrades to be procured under a single contract and the four treatment plants to be procured under a single Design Build Operate contract.

I understand that work is nearing completion on the networks contract for the South Roscommon Regional Water Supply Scheme. My Department awaits the submission of Roscommon County Council's revised contract documents for the other elements of the project.

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