Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the way that an application by a person (details supplied) for a private well grant can be refused, citing proximity to a mains water supply as the reason when the same property could not be considered for a group water scheme in recent years due to the cost of developing a scheme to the property being considered excessive; if he agrees that both determinations are at odds with each other; and if he will agree to have the recent well grant application for this property re-examined. [63211/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department cannot 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 (Uisce Éireann) 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.

My Department deals with policy, while the day to day administration of the grant scheme has been devolved to the local authorities. Each local authority has appointed a Rural Water Liaison Officer who deals with the day to day implementation issues of the Programme. The officer can be contacted at the Rural Water Section of the relevant local authority (in this case Westmeath County Council). In addition, further information on the grant scheme is available from my Department's website at the following link.

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