Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)

I do not know what I have to do in order to make it easy for people to understand that this is a very well laid out and comprehensible document setting out the reasons we must have a licensing and monitoring inspection system in order to comply with a European Court of Justice judgment. The full details are laid out on how inspections will be carried out and when people can register has already been indicated as part of the press release for the Act. I cannot make it any simpler and if there is a problem with on-site waste water treatment systems, it will be tackled without any difficulty. I do not envisage an enormous number of people failing to comply with the inspection process arising from the regulations which I successfully negotiated, through the EPA, with the European Commission.

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