Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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206. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to have a further round of the national taking in charge initiative measure 2; and the way he intends to advance improvement works for estates identified in the pilot but not approved funding. [23145/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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€10 million has been made available in 2016 to fund a new initiative to accelerate the taking-in-charge of estates, irrespective of the wider development context in which they are located. Of the €10 million, a provisional allocation of €3.5 million has been made available in relation to Housing Estates served by Developer Provided Infrastructure (Measure 2 referred to in the question).

Local authorities were invited to submit proposals, based on that indicative allocation of €3.5 million proposed to be made available to seven local authorities (Cork County, Clare, Donegal, Galway County, Kerry, Tipperary and Wexford County Councils) for demonstration projects under Measure 2 relating to housing estates served by Developer Provided Infrastructure (DPI), based on an earlier pilot study. While there are no plans at present to roll out another funding initiative for Measure 2, consideration may also be given to other counties within the indicative funding available.

The experience gained through the initiative in 2016 and the associated demonstration projects is intended to establish a co-ordinated, taking-in-charge programme to progressively address the issue on a multi-annual basis, in the light of available local authority, Irish Water, bond and other funding sources and the general Government financial position.