Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the rural water programme will be announced. [18708/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Responsibility for the administration of my Department’s Rural Water Programme , under which funding is provided for group water and group seweragesschemes, has been devolved to local authorities since 1997. The selection, prioritisation and approval of individual group 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. Details of t he recently announced 2015 Rural Water Programme block grant allocations to local authorities are available on my Department’s website