James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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1673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if private well owners will be reimbursed for the cost of maintaining wells when no public water service exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36271/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Funding is available under my Department's Rural Water Programme towards the provision or necessary improvement of private wells. Local authorities were informed of the grant scheme and the criteria to be met by way of Circular Letter L8/97 of April 1997.  The terms and conditions of the scheme are set out in an Explanatory Memorandum which is available from the local authorities and on my Department's website at the following link: .