Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 10 March 2022, the reason the report for the provision of research and information on the rural water sector to support the rural water working group in carrying out its work has been categorised as not for publication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17632/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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In April 2018, the Rural Water Working Group was established to conduct a review of the wider investment needs relating to rural water services. The Group's aim is to recommend measures to ensure an equality of outcome for those who receive water services from Irish Water and non-Irish Water customers. The establishment of the Working Group was also undertaken in response to the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services.

The outcomes and reports of the Working Group will inform future policy and investment decisions, by myself as Minister and the Government, on rural water services. While not intended for publication in isolation, the report for the provision of research and information on the rural water sector to support the Rural Water Working Group, will of course be publically available when the report is completed and fully considered by the Rural Water Working Group.