Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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432. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the funding for group water scheme upgrades and private water scheme upgrades will be made available to the local authority in Kerry County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16649/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Responsibility for the administration of my Department’s Rural Water Programme, which includes funding for group water schemes, has been devolved to local authorities since 1997.

The annual block grant allocations provided by my Department to the local authorities under the programme, in respect of group water schemes, are based, in the first instance, on the requests for funding received from the authorities at the beginning of each year. The authorities’ requests for funding under the 2015 Rural Water Programme are being examined in my Department. I expect to announce details of the 2015 allocations shortly.