Noel McCarthy (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 3 July 2025, to provide details of the seven projects approved for funding under measure A8 of the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme; the number of premises to be addressed under each of the seven projects; the number of full pilot projects completed to date; if any further funding applications for pilot schemes will be accepted under the current programme; if his Department has figures on the number of currently un answered localities that could benefit from such funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49311/25]

Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South-West, Fianna Fail)
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The details sought on the projects approved for funding in principle under my Department's Multi-annual Rural Water Programme referred to the question are set out in the table below:

While my Department has given approval in principle for the projects listed, they are complex and will take a number of years to plan, design, commence and complete.

All of our cities and towns and many of our villages have public wastewater collection networks and treatments systems - circa 1,000 such locations are owned and operated by Uisce Éireann nationally. In 2022 my Department carried out a baseline survey of all rural local authorities to establish the number of villages listed in their County Development Plan that do not have access to public waste water services. At the time 547 were reported.