Michael Kitt (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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495. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received a proposal to provide funding for an extension to a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Galway. [24061/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Claregalway and lltown Sewerage Scheme – Network Contract and Design Build Operate Wastewater Treatment Plant Contract – is included in my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2010- 2013 as two contracts to start during the lifetime of the Programme, at an estimated cost of over €13.5 million.

I approved the commitment of the necessary capital funding of just over €1.33 million for the Network Contract for the scheme in August 2012 and I understand work is progressing rapidly. I also approv ed the Contract Documents for the Wastewater Treatment Plant - DBO earlier this month.

However, no proposal to provide funding for an extension of the lltown Sewerage Scheme to serve Cartron village has been received in my Department. It is a matter for Galway County Council, as the statutory water services authority, to submit any such proposal to my Department.