Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)

I am making it clear. If I were introducing a system of uniform inspection of septic tanks then no other registration would be necessary, but I am not doing so. I am introducing a risk-based assessment under which approximately one in every five or six tanks will be inspected. During the five year period changes will be made to the systems by some people and some may put in second or tertiary treatment systems. Any details in a second registration would necessarily take account of improvements since the first registration. Circumstances will change and the detail one outlines in the second registration may be different. This involves updating what is taking place on the ground and seeing what people are doing in a self-assessment way through the registration process by updating the information about how people are putting in new systems, whether they must do so or what they are doing to improve groundwater quality without having inspections through this registration process.