Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)

These are the areas in which there is poor percolation. People living in small cottages, those who built small bungalows on half an acre or on small one quarter acre sites are the ones who will be caught out. I am pleading with the Minister to guarantee before we leave this Chamber this evening that people will not be forced to buy extra land. I have told him about areas in which the percolation occurs off-site. The people concerned must be given assurances. Like other rural Deputies, I need to be able to tell them that they will not have to buy extra land and that those on the edge of towns will be brought into group water schemes in towns.

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