Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

I thank everyone for being here. I apologise for missing a share of the meeting. I was speaking on the Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill.

On the slurry exemption, could the Minister speak about separation distances from the likes of water supply and watercourses? The separation distance from a public road is 10 m, and I believe it is 100 m from a nearby residential property, other than where that property is the residential property of the farmer. To be perfectly blunt, if I thought a slurry storage tank was going up within 100 m of my house, I would be a little concerned. How did the Department settle on the 100 m distance for a private residential property?