Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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799. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be provided to Cork County Council to connect homes in an area (details supplied) in County Cork to the water mains supply in Riverstick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35118/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Riverstick Water Supply Scheme was included for funding under the Serviced Land Initiative measure of my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2007- 2009. In April 2009, my Department, following a review of the Serviced Land Initiative in light of developments in the economy at large, and in the housing market in particular during 2008, and having regard to the oversupply of housing in some areas, informed all local authorities that all existing approvals under the Initiative, for which contracts had not been signed or letters of intent had issued, were being withdrawn. However, authorities were also advised that where a water services authority was of the opinion that the continuation of an approved scheme for which contracts had not been signed was necessary for the proper development of the area, it was open to the authority to make a case to the Department by the end of May 2009 for the scheme to progress. No such case was made by Cork County Council in relation to the Riverstick Water Supply Scheme.