Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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Question 227: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a progress report on a planned sewerage scheme for the Skibbereen area; a timescale for completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13537/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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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 Cork. The West Cork Grouped DBO Scheme, which involves the construction of new waste water treatment plants at Skibbereen, Dunmanway, Baltimore and Schull, is included in the programme among the list of contracts in the county to start in the period 2010-2012. The Skibbereen sewerage network has been completed since 2009. Treatment facilities are in place on a interim basis pending the construction of the waste water treatment plant for Skibbereen. Earlier this year, my Department approved funding to allow Cork County Council to place the Wastewater Treatment Plant Design Build Operate contract for the West Cork Grouped DBO scheme with the recommended contractor at a cost of €6.9 million. I understand that the contract is now under way and that construction of the Skibbereen Wastewater Treatment Plant has commenced.