Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

That is why we spent €4.4 billion on the municipal system. However, those in Europe were not happy with that. They told us that despite the fact that we are going about this systematically and focusing on the major problem, it was not good enough and that we had to register every system in the country. If the Minister thinks that Europe is registering every system for the sake of ensuring they all comply with European standards under the 2007 waste directive, he is delusional. It was for that reason we believed the ordinary people of rural Ireland must be firewalled against a possible cost that European law might impose on them if a high standard was to be imposed, but also if a low standard was proposed.

To ensure we can discuss this again, and we are still not any clearer-----

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