Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next round of the rural water programme will be published given that this programme is vital for extensions to local group water schemes and small sewerage schemes which are awaiting funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62013/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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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 and I expect to have their report soon. Once I have had an opportunity to consider it, I will announce details of the programme priorities and an invitation to local authorities to submit bids will follow.