Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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549. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the group water schemes operational subsidy payment will issue to each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27642/15]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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550. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the level of funding to be provided to Cavan County Council for 2015 in respect of his Department's group water scheme operational subsidy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27643/15]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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551. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the level of funding to be provided to Monaghan County Council for 2015 in respect of his Department's group water scheme operational subsidy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27644/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 549 to 551, inclusive, together.

Responsibility for the administration of the scheme under which subsidies are paid to group water schemes towards the operational costs of supplying water for domestic use is devolved to local authorities. The payments made by the local authorities are subsequently recouped to them by my Department.

The recoupments are demand led and as such they are no annual allocations to each local authority.

Arrangements are underway to pay all valid recoupment claims which have been received from the local authorities and this payment will issue shortly.