Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital investment by his Department in individual group water schemes in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [49954/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department’s Rural Water Programme, prior to 2016, provided capital funding to group water schemes through a series of funding measures based on block grants. The block grants were made annually to local authorities who administer the programme on behalf of my Department. These block grants, enabling capital works to group water schemes, were made under the following measures of the programme:

- Measure 1 – Quality Deficient Group Water Schemes

- Measure 2 – Water Conservation – Network Upgrades

- Measure 3 – New Group Water Schemes

- Measure 4 – Specific Source Protection Works

- Measure 5 – Capital Replacement Works.

Details of the amounts recouped to the relevant local authorities under these measures are outlined in the tables below for the years 2014 and 2015. Details of funding for individual group water schemes are available from the relevant local authorities.

The 2014 payments to local authorities under Measures 1-5 of the Rural Water Programme are outlined in the table below.

The 2015 payments to local authorities under Measures 1-5 of the Rural Water Programme are outlined in the table below.

In 2016, my Department introduced a multi-annual approach to funding the Rural Water Programme. This new Multi-annual Rural Water Programme 2016–2018 is transitioning from block grants to a scheme based funding approach under the programme. My Department recoups capital funding to local authorities who continue to administer the programme on behalf of the Department. My Department is working towards collating expenditure on both a measure and individual scheme basis from 2018 onwards.

Individual scheme and block based grant funding for group water schemes were made under the following measures of the new programme:

- Measure 1 - Environmental and public health compliance (group water sector)

- Measure 2 - Enhancement of existing schemes (group water sector)

- Measure 3 - Rural development (group water sector)

- Measure 4 - Transition of group schemes (water and waste water) to public water sector (Irish Water)

- Measure 5 - Innovation and Research.

Measure 1 is transitioning to an individual scheme based approach in 2017 (with some remaining block grants). Measures 3, 4 and 5 are scheme based from 2016. Measure 2 continues to be a block grant based approach.

Details of the expenditure by the relevant local authorities under these measures are outlined in the tables below for the years 2016 and 2017 (to 27/11/2017). Details of funding for individual group water schemes are available from the relevant local authorities.

The 2016 payments to local authorities under Measures 1-5 of the Rural Water Programme are outlined in the table below.

The 2017 payments to local authorities under Measures 1-5 of the Rural Water Programme (up to and including 27 November 2017) are outlined in the table below.