Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amounts paid by his Department in grants and supports for those operating private or group water schemes in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45097/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department recoups funding under the Rural Water Programme to local authorities who administer the programme on behalf of my Department. This recoupment includes grants for capital works and subsidies as a contribution towards the annual operational cost of the domestic element of group water schemes and grants towards the provision or necessary improvement of individual domestic water supplies (more commonly known as private wells).

The table below sets out the amount recouped under the programme over the period 2011 to 2017 (20 October 2017) as grants and subsidies for group water schemes and grants for individual domestic water supplies. There is no subsidy towards the annual operational cost of the latter.

The amounts in the following table do not include the administration and overhead costs of local authorities in administering the rural water programme (approx. €1.8m per annum) which are also recouped to local authorities by my Department.