Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 359: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when it is proposed to select the projects that will be allocated funding under the water services investment programme for 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11850/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Water Services Investment Programme is a multi-annual investment plan for the provision of major water and sewerage schemes. The Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2012 is the current such plan. The programme includes details of the contracts to commence over the period 2010 to 2012, as well as schemes to advance through planning in this period. A copy of the Programme is available in the Oireachtas library.

My Department is currently undertaking an annual review of the Programme. There are two components to this review: a review of progress of all schemes and contracts currently in the Programme, and following that a consideration of the need for any reprioritisation of contracts and schemes, including addressing issues which have emerged since the Programme was published which require an urgent response. The current scale of the published Programme was set in the context of likely available financial resources over the medium term. In light of this, and the short time which has passed since the extensive review undertaken in the development of the Programme, there is only scope for, and should only be a need for, minor adjustments to the Programme at this stage.