Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will keep this generalised. There are huge issues. We have very old housing estates with, in some cases, legacy sewerage systems, both the public line and the individual run of houses, too many houses on the one line, the wrong types of piping and so on. In my estate there is a huge number of issues and sometimes the responsibility lies literally with the person who owns the house. Sometimes that can create huge difficulties. I think we will have to find some sort of framework to deal with this issue. I know that a number of these issues have been sorted by dealing with Uisce Éireann and the local authority. That is why I will not mention particular areas. This is, however, a particular issue in the town of Dundalk.

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