Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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495. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce an incentive scheme or tax rebate to promote rain water harvesting as a means of water conservation. [43832/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I am fully supportive of technologies which contribute to the conservation of water. Rainwater harvesting has the potential to benefit the environment and contribute to reducing the cost of water services for certain uses. The introduction of a grants scheme for water conservation would have to be considered in the context of the available budgetary resources.

The introduction of any tax rebat es is a matter for the Minister for Finance.