Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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Why is it that it is only the farmer being targeted? Why is nothing being done at all about treatment plants and local authorities? I am not really blaming the local authorities because it is the Government at the end of the day that should provide the funding to them to rectify and remedy these plants that are not up to scratch and increase the capacity. Why are farmers having to suffer financially and why do we not see the same focus of attention on the local authorities in the context of this problem?

We do not see the same focus of attention on local authorities and this problem.

I cannot understand another small aspect of this grant for treating septic tanks. Sometimes I have to ring the environment section of Kerry County Council to see if someone qualifies for the grant. A young girl asked me the other day whether she would qualify. The engineer at the other end of the line told me she will, but the people on the other side of the road will not. The fall of ground from both places is going towards the lakes of Killarney. How can it be that people on one side of the road do not qualify and people on the other side do?