Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour)
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276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when plans to advertise for a new grant scheme to allow private water schemes to upgrade or refurbish their schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45826/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I understand the Question refers to Group Water Schemes.

My Department’s Multi-annual Rural Water Programme, through Exchequer funding, delivers improvements to water services in areas of rural Ireland where there are no public water services.

A working group - the Rural Water Working Group - is considering the composition of the measures for inclusion for funding under the upcoming multi-annual programme. Once I have had an opportunity to consider their report, I expect to announce details of the programme priorities and an invitation to local authorities to submit bids will follow later this year.