Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department provided capital funding to local authorities under the Water Services Investment Programmes (WSIPs) up until the end of 2013. The following table sets out the funding recouped to Monaghan County Council from 1997 to 2011 under the WSIPs.

Year Paid	Total paid
1997	€2,620,048
1998	€2,724,317
1999	€3,944,853
2000	€8,214,616
2001	€5,236,878
2002	€1,859,214
2003	€2,834,075
2004	€3,226,457
2005	€1,966,256
2006	€1,448,933
2007	€622,561
2008	€5,871,193
2009	€11,992,801
2010	€4,570,237
2011	€4,674,019
Grand Total	€61,806,458

Responsibility for the administration of the 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. The table below sets out the funding recouped to Monaghan County Council from 1997 to 2011. This includes all capital funding provided under the Rural Water Programme and subsidies, provided under the Local Government Fund, towards the operational costs of group water schemes and local authority salary costs.

RURAL WATER PROGRAMME

Year	Exchequer Grants Paid	Subsidies paid towards operational costs of Group Water Schemes and Local Authority Salary Costs
-	€	€
1997	1,600,509	264,715
1998	922,989	356,824
1999	2,264,535	651,922
2000	1,972,322	622,189
2001	2,876,253	448,972
2002	3,664,322	761,117
2003	8,974,784	813,626
2004	4,354,337	735,770
2005	3,674,409	1,471,682
2006	3,263,380	1,002,725
2007	2,525,976	719,116
2008	3,358,748	1,790,315
2009	2,533,132	3,019,024
2010	2,110,841	1,501,258
2011	1,920,559	3,946,445
TOTALS	46,017,096	18,105,700

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 (CIP) 2014 – 2016 and this is available online at.

Irish Water has also 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 or by telephone on a new dedicated number, 1890 578 578.