Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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616. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the group sewerage schemes which were sanctioned to proceed in the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and to date in 2014 outlining on a county basis their location, the funding awarded, the numbers of houses benefitting and the current position of the individual scheme; when he anticipates the next call for applications will be made in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48283/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Responsibility for the administration of the Rural Water Programme, which includes group sewerage schemes, has been devolved to local authorities since 1997. An increase in the grant for group sewerage schemes to €6,500 per house or 75% of the cost of the scheme, whichever is the lesser, was announced in December 2012. The previous rate of grant available was €2,031.58 per house or 75% of the cost, whichever was the lesser.

It was proposed, in the first instance, to carry out a number of pilot schemes based on the increased grant level. Following an examination of the proposals received from the local authorities , the schemes listed in the tables below were approved for grants by my Department in 2013 and 2014. Details of schemes approved for grants by local authorities from 2010 to 2012 under the devolved pro cedures, along with detailsrelating to the numbers of houses benefitting and the current position on all individual schemes,would be available from the local authorities. My Department has asked local authorities to submit their requests for funding under the 2015 Rural Water Programme.



Group Sewerage Schemes Approved Grants under the 2013 Rural Water Programme