Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 29 May 2024
122. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage 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]
View answerMy 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.
