Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 206: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the full extent of funding provided by him on a county basis for water and sewerage schemes, major or minor or group schemes in each of the past three years and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44627/10]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Exchequer investment in water services infrastructure is provided to local authorities under the water services investment programme, which is a rolling multi-annual programme for major public water and waste water schemes and the rural water programme. The details of expenditure on major water and sewerage schemes under the Water Services Investment Programme (WSIP) and the Rural Water Programme (RWP) on a county basis for 2007 to 2009 are set out in the following tables.

Water Services Exchequer Capital Expenditure

The 2010 exchequer provision for water services infrastructure is €508 million, of which €415 million is available under the Water Services Investment Programme and €93 million under the Rural Water Programme.

Funding for Water Services is based on recoupment to authorities of expenditure on a contract/scheme basis. Details of the contracts/schemes to be undertaken in the period 2010 – 2012 are set out in the Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2012, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas Library. Allocations on a county basis are made in relation to the majority of funding under the Rural Water Programme. The funding allocated to counties in 2010 under the rural water programme is set out in the following table.

2010 Rural Water Programme Block Grant Allocations