Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein)

I will.

I acknowledge that there is a great deal of jousting going on, but this is a serious issue. If a builder was to do a botched job on a septic tank, the householder would know about it because the septic tank would not work, but if the tank was polluting groundwater, he or she might not know about this. The issue is he or she will be prosecuted if groundwater is polluted, not if the septic tank is not working. The level of contamination can fluctuate in a septic tank. There has been plenty of botched building work in recent years and if work on a septic tank has been botched, the householder can take a civil case against the builder. In contrast, if the householder is prosecuted for causing pollution, he or she will be criminalised, even though he or she bought a septic tank in good faith. That is wrong.