Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The Water Services Investment Programme was a multi-annual investment plan for the provision of major water and sewerage schemes. The first rolling 3-year Water Services Investment Programme was launched in July 2000 to meet identified water services needs. The Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2013was the last such plan, and is available in the Oireachtas library along with previous plans. Details of expenditure from 2000 to 2013 under the Water Services Investment Programmes is outlined in the table below.

Water Services Investment Programme
Year	Wastewater	Water
2000	€ 295,176,910	€ 84,460,078
2001	€ 376,014,089	€ 76,735,983
2002	€ 350,592,383	€ 82,525,447
2003	€ 285,199,226	€ 87,412,374
2004	€ 229,629,924	€ 82,137,157
2005	€ 208,520,159	€ 89,559,496
2006	€ 239,367,972	€ 95,069,796
2007	€ 254,550,106	€ 111,460,977
2008	€ 239,830,986	€ 150,958,610
2009	€ 255,101,895	€ 156,806,796
2010	€ 283,744,360	€ 122,150,173
2011	€ 220,143,396	€ 129,568,781
2012	€ 150,362,918	€ 115,976,768
2013	€ 124,396,289	€ 108,490,456
Total	€ 3,512,630,615	€ 1,493,312,893

Responsibility for the administration of my Department’s Rural Water Programme has been devolved to local authorities since 1997. The selection, prioritisation and approval of individual scheme proposals for advancement and funding under the programme , within the overall priorities set by my Department and subject to the block grant allocations provided, is therefore a matter for the local authorities. Information on the schemes on which the funding was incurred would, therefore, be available from the local authorities. The table below sets out the capital funding recouped to authorities by my Department under the Programme.

Rural Water Programme Capital Payments
Year	€ Million
2000	44.950
2001	53.456
2002	57.232
2003	74.828
2004	85.946
2005	119.000
2006	130.000
2007	130.000
2008	105.000
2009	100.000
2010	88.000
2011	79.000
2012	40.000
2013	34.000
2014 (Provision)	27.700

Since 1 January 2014 Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels including the delivery of water services capital infrastructure. Irish Water has published its proposed Capital Investment Plan 2014-2016 and this is available online at

Irish Water has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and queries from public representatives and has contacted all Oireachtas members to provide details of an improved level of service which it is aiming to provide. The team can be contacted via email to oireachtasmembers@water.ieor by telephone on a new dedicated number, 1890 578 578.