Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the course of action that is available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29643/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department cannot give advise on the specific situation outlined in the details supplied. However I can advise that my Department’s Rural Water Programme, through Exchequer funding, delivers improvements to water services in areas of rural Ireland where there are no public (Irish Water) services.

Grant assistance is available, through local authorities, under the Programme for capital works including for Individual Domestic Water Supplies (private wells) to a house. The grant, subject to certain conditions, assists households dependent on these supplies with the costs incurred in providing such a supply of water for domestic purposes or rectifying serious deficiencies with an existing supply.

Each local authority has appointed a Rural Water Liaison Officer who deals with the day to day implementation issues for the Programme. The officer can be contacted at the Rural Water Section of the relevant local authority. In addition, further information on the grant scheme is available from my Department's website at the link below.

www.housing.gov.ie/water/water-services/rural-water-programme/private-wells.