Dáil debates
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed)
5:15 pm
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source
It is in direct response to the Minister. I thank him for addressing the three questions I raised. I would like to go back to the three of them. The first one was about Arklow and, if I understood the Minister correctly, the rationale was that while there is no wastewater treatment facility in Arklow, or in 41 towns around the country, by charging for wastewater, it will raise funds to allow a wastewater treatment plant to be built. Funding for the wastewater treatment plant in Arklow has been in place for many years through central taxation. The only reason it has not been built is due to a legal issue. The issue of people in Arklow having to pay for a wastewater treatment service they do not have in order to fund the wastewater treatment plant does not exist.
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