Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I will move away from An Bord Pleanála and refer to the guidelines. I refer to table 4 of the EPA's wastewater treatment manual on treatment systems for small communities. I am asking about the general issue. Those guidelines are from 1999 and are on treatment systems for small communities, business, leisure centres and hotels. When building a water treatment plant near those facilities we look at guidelines from 1999. Is the EPA planning to update them or is it satisfied that they are adequate?