asked the Minister for Local Government if he will sanction the Castlemaine sewerage scheme proposed by Kerry County Council to enable work to be carried out which is urgently required as the present system is operated through an open drain which is dangerous to health and creates a nuisance on the main tourist roads to the Dingle peninsula.

There are no proposals at present before my Department for this scheme. I understand that a preliminary report prepared in 1966 is currently being revised and may be submitted to my Department in the near future.

Kerry County Council informed me some time ago that the matter is in the hands of the Department. This is an open drain taking sewerage to the sea along the edge of a tourist road and at that stage there is a terrible stench from it. In Tralee we are informed that the matter is in the Minister's Department.

Perhaps the Deputy would inform them in Tralee that a preliminary report on the scheme was submitted by Kerry County Council on 11th June, 1975, but that report had been prepared by the county council in 1966. On 23rd October they were asked by letter to have the report revised to provide for certain things. So far the revised scheme has not come back. They have promised to let us have the revised scheme in the near future. To submit a 1966 scheme in 1975 was not a good way of trying to hurry things up.

I shall go back to them again.

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