Pat the Cope Gallagher intervention sees Letterbric rural water scheme reviewed

Minister O’Brien has written to Donegal County Council

placeholder image — Minister O’Brien has written to Donegal County Council

Pat the Cope Gallagher has been working intensively on this application over the past number of weeks and Donegal County Council has received a reply from Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien

Pat the Cope Gallagher has directly lobbied the Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien in order to progress the Letterbric, Cloghan, rural water scheme.

Due to this intervention, Minister O’Brien has written to Donegal County Council, saying: “I am very conscious of the needs of rural areas and I am requesting that you review the priority projects in your area. For example Letterbric, maybe a proposal for which Donegal local authority has additional specific information to support an application for funding a project of this scale and cost.

“Additional information including options to minimise overall and per unit costs, specific local challenges or any exceptional history or factors you consider relevant can be submitted directly to the Rural Water Unit of the Department”

Pat the Cope Gallagher said: “I am confident that Donegal County Council have the capacity to supply the Department with the required information without delay and meantime I will maintain the political pressure on the Minister to follow through on this project and progress the Letterbric rural water scheme.

“I wish to acknowledge the personal interest in this project of Minister Darragh O Brien who has been extremely supportive once I made him aware of the scale of the project as up to 50 households are directly impacted by this rural water scheme. We have an opportunity to move this project to the approval stage and I will remain committed to delivering this projected conclusion.”