Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the sewage treatment plant at a location (details supplied) in County Carlow will be upgraded. [41471/12]

Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when will the sewage treatment plant at a location (details supplied) in County Carlow will be upgraded. [41472/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 369 and 370 together.

The contracts for Hacketstown Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Rathvilly Wastewater Treatment Plant are part of the Tullow/Rathvilly/Hacketstown Sewerage Scheme and are included in my Department’s Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2013 as contract s to start in the lifetime of the Programme.

My Department has recently approved Carlow County Council ’s proposals for advance interim works on both treatment plants to address the existing needs of the villages and to meet the conditions of the EPA Discharge Licence.

In the case of the Hacketstown plant, t he proposal involves upgrading the existing plant from its current design capacity of 600 population equivalent to 1,315 population equivalent . In the case of the Rathvilly plant, the proposal involves upgrading the existing plant from its current design capacity of 600 population equivalent to 1,400 population equivalent. It is anticipated that, following a tender procedure , work on the contracts will commence during 2013.