Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 585: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to increase the grants for group sewerage schemes in view of the present differential between such scheme grants and group water scheme grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23792/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The rate of grant available for Group Sewerage Schemes is €2,031.58 per house or 75% of the cost of the scheme, whichever is the lesser.

My Department has funded a pilot programme to test a range of small-scale wastewater collection and treatment systems under Irish conditions. The objective of this pilot programme is to evaluate new approaches to meeting the wastewater collection and treatment needs of rural communities. The National Rural Water Services Committee will consider the final report on the performance of new infrastructure provided under this pilot programme. I will review the future role of group sewerage schemes in the provision of wastewater collections systems in the light of the Committee's report and in the context of any proposals the Committee may put forward when it finalises the development of a strategy on the Rural Water Programme which it has been requested to produce.