Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to launch a multi-annual scheme for providing sewage schemes in unsewered small villages and towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24286/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department recognises that continued investment in water infrastructure is required across urban and rural Ireland.

With regard to our rural communities, my Department is committed to support take-up of Uisce Éireann’s Small Towns and Villages Growth Programme to provide water and wastewater growth capacity in smaller settlements and also to continued non-Uisce Éireann investment in rural water infrastructure.

Under the National Development Plan €50m has been committed to a funding measure for the provision of waste water collection and treatment needs for villages without access to public waste water services. I recently approved funding for a number of demonstration projects under this funding measure and their progress will inform future approaches to the waste water collection and treatment needs of such locations. I do not have plans to launch a new multi-annual scheme.

Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement to date with Cork County Council in advancing the Crossbarry wastewater treatment plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24365/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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There are a number of housing estates across the country that rely on developer provided infrastructure for their water services networks. These estates have not been taken-in-charge and their water services networks are not, currently, connected to the public (Uisce Éireann) network. The water services infrastructure, provided by the developer of such estates, is more commonly called DPI.

My Departments’ Multi-annual Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme (DPI Programme) has provided funding to assist in progressively resolving issues with DPI in a number of locations across the country.

I can confirm that in June 2023 I approved over €3.3 million of funding, under the DPI Programme, to Cork County Council to deliver this project to resolve the DPI issue in Crossbarry.