Environment, Community & Local Government: Waste Water Treatment Expenditure Approval for County Kildare 15th July 2013

Question No.     169
 
 
Chun an Aire Comhshaoil, Pobail agus Rialtais Áitiúil:
To the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government:                            
 
 
To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total expenditure on waste water treatment approved for County Kildare in each of the past five years to date; the extent of any such required expenditure in the future in the short and medium term; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
– Bernard J. Durkan.
 
 
For WRITTEN answer on Thursday, 11th July, 2013.
 
Ref No: 34113/13
 
 
REPLY
 
Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (Mr. P. Hogan)
 
Recoupment by my Department to Kildare County Council in respect of expenditure by the council on waste water infrastructure in the past five years is set out in the following Table:
Year  Recoupment
2008  €1.25m
   
2009  €12.07m
   
2010  €7.54m
   
2011  €13.25m
   
2012  €4.12m
   

My Department’s Water Services Investment Programme 2010 €“ 2013 , a copy of which is in the Oireachtas Library , contains an indicative list of waste water schemes and contracts in County Kildare on which expenditure has been, or will be, incurred up to the end of 2013.
 
Responsibility for the provision of water services will pass to Irish Water at the end of the year.     Insofar as future capital investment is concerned, it is envisaged that in developing investment plans for public water services, Irish Water will take account of the requirements flowing from the programmes of measures in River Basin Management Plans, and the need to support economic and regional development.   Irish Water is engaged with my Department, and the Water Services Transition Office established by the County and City Managers’ Association, in planning the transition of the current water services capital programme, as well as looking at longer-term strategic planning for the sector and developing an appropriate asset management plan. Irish Water will continue to prepare over the coming months to assume statutory responsibility for the delivery of the public water services capital programme from 1 January 2014.