Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any plans to provide an extension to allow property owners to connect to the main sewer in Alderwood Road in Tralee, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43907/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Investment in water and waste water services in the State is delivered through the national utility, Uisce Éireann.

The National Development Plan 2021-2030 provided for over €243 million funding over the period 2021 to 2025 for non-Uisce Éireann investment in rural water infrastructure and services.

My Department’s Multi-Annual Rural Water Rural Water Programme (MARWP) is the main funding stream providing this funding. A core purpose of the Programme is to provide the necessary funding to improve the quality, reliability and efficiency of water services for rural dwellers.

I can confirm that, in 2016, my Department approved funding under the MARWP for a Community Waste Water Connection at the location referred to in the Question.

I understand that Kerry County Council has not progressed this project.

The responsibility for the implementation of the MARWP is devolved to individual local authorities and in each there is a Rural Water Liaison Officer who is responsible for the day to day administration of projects. For further information on the issue, the officer can be contacted at Kerry County Council.