Written answers
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
Water Services Funding
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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794. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the capital investment in water services and water leakages, by local authority, over the last 15 years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6940/16]
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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The Water Services Investment Programme was a multi-annual investment plan for the provision of major water and sewerage schemes including water mains rehabilitation. The first rolling 3-year Water Services Investment Programme was launched in July 2000 to meet identified water services needs. The Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2013 was the last such plan, and is available in the Oireachtas library along with previous plans. In addition, capital funding was provided to local authorities under the Rural Water Programme for the provision of group water and sewerage schemes and some miscellaneous water related grants as well as small public schemes during this period and beyond.
Details of expenditure by each local authority, from 2000 to 2013 under the Water Services Investment Programmes and from 2000 to 2015 under the Rural Water Programme, are outlined in the table below. Local authorities would have also incurred expenditure from their own resources on public water services. As a general rule, when this local contribution is taken into account, the Exchequer spending represented about 75% of the costs of the majority of projects.
| Local Authority | Water Services Investment Programme 2000 - 2013* | Rural Water Programme 2000 - 2015 € | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wastewater € | Water € | ||
| Carlow County Council | 29,435,892 | 24,123,612 | 33,744,441 |
| Cavan County Council | 29,111,754 | 30,448,865 | 96,505,561 |
| Clare County Council | 36,346,848 | 49,670,748 | 51,985,398 |
| Cork City Council | 270,674,790 | 6,937,536 | - |
| Cork County Council | 167,991,956 | 59,307,920 | 61,285,939 |
| Donegal County Council | 137,993,791 | 55,892,984 | 54,493,488 |
| Dublin City Council | 548,216,042 | 209,369,201 | - |
| Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown Council | 92,947,505 | 23,483,130 | 503,755 |
| Fingal County Council | 178,048,297 | 123,854,650 | 41,008 |
| Galway City Council | 91,517,496 | 17,979,964 | - |
| Galway County Council | 74,643,316 | 124,394,900 | 149,368,838 |
| Kerry County Council | 60,750,866 | 35,043,999 | 41,004,344 |
| Kildare County Council | 158,566,166 | 83,403,056 | 17,194,386 |
| Kilkenny County Council | 14,835,076 | 15,702,335 | 19,398,821 |
| Laois County Council | 68,061,567 | 14,170,916 | 28,645,428 |
| Leitrim County Council | 36,782,077 | 30,440,365 | 47,012,425 |
| Limerick City Council | 342,964,763 | 29,612,614 | - |
| Limerick County Council | 47,854,156 | 16,249,859 | 48,389,628 |
| Longford County Council | 23,313,455 | 25,403,994 | 15,699,898 |
| Louth County Council | 75,402,028 | 11,096,204 | 14,547,841 |
| Mayo County Council | 192,413,994 | 67,338,156 | 148,400,550 |
| Meath County Council | 186,275,075 | 69,530,730 | 25,138,009 |
| Monaghan County Council | 28,042,532 | 27,426,533 | 43,702,979 |
| North Tipperary County Council | 26,707,608 | 33,285,130 | 41,856,572 |
| Offaly County Council | 53,643,220 | 22,746,965 | 23,879,691 |
| Roscommon County Council | 56,956,607 | 26,944,144 | 54,110,369 |
| Sligo County Council | 44,563,102 | 32,824,070 | 36,225,373 |
| South Dublin County Council | 43,056,289 | 34,919,443 | 1,404,476 |
| South Tipperary County Council | 66,306,625 | 13,957,327 | 11,460,805** |
| Waterford City Council | 69,295,384 | 17,596,463 | - |
| Waterford County Council | 70,341,469 | 25,860,974 | 14,134,234 |
| Westmeath County Council | 55,805,267 | 43,409,114 | 22,055,512 |
| Wexford County Council | 89,870,313 | 46,863,373 | 29,012,297 |
| Wicklow County Council | 43,895,288 | 44,023,617 | 32,417,349 |
| Grand Total | 3,512,630,615 | 1,493,312,893 | 1,163,619,415 |
* Since 1 January 2014 Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of public water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels, including the delivery of water services capital infrastructure.
**Irish Water has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and queries from public representatives. The team can be contacted via email to or by telephone on a dedicated number, 1890 578 578.
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