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Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (14 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: I have no plans to legislate for the management and regulation of undertakers. Under the 1878 Public Health (Ireland) Act, as amended, local authorities, acting in their capacity as burial boards, are responsible for the management, regulation and control of burial grounds provided by them and it is a matter for them to determine the cost of burial plots. Other burial grounds and crematoria...

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 2 together. On 29 October 2009, the European Court of Justice ruled against Ireland with regard to the treatment of waste waters from septic tanks and other on-site wastewater treatment systems. The court found that by failing to adopt the necessary legislation to comply with Articles 4 and 8 of the 1975 waste directive as regards domestic wastewaters...

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: Ireland was roundly condemned in the European Court of Justice in October 2009, during the Deputy's time as part of the Government, but nothing was done. The confusion arose from people like Deputy Ó Cuív, Ms Marian Harkin, MEP, and the IFA, who all voiced the opinion that I intended to introduce a notional charge of €300 per annum for annual inspection and maintenance. I never said...

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: -----that he did not understand that he signed up to this document when he was sitting at the Cabinet table.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: He acknowledged that. I am introducing a nominal charge to pay for the expenses of people who carry out the inspections. There is only one charge, no annual inspection and no confusion.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: Up the cats.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: As the Deputy knows from my original reply, this is a once-off nominal charge for registration purposes. The charge I have in mind is no more than €50 but I will spell out the details of exactly what will be charged in 2012 when the legislation is published in a few weeks and brought before the House. The local government system will do the work; there will be no new empire building by...

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: Deputy Ó Cuív did.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: It is a once-off charge.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: No, it was not. The Deputy asked about the charge and I told him what it would be and that it would be a once-off charge.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: That is registration but I did not say we would charge every five years.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: For the third time, there will be no annual inspection charge. I realise it is a disappointing for some people that this is the case and that I do not intend to take more money from people. There is a property tax in Northern Ireland which is a source of income-----

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: It is amazing, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, and I know you will agree with me, that after 14 years of Fianna Fáil in Government it is now Fine Gael's fault that there are problems in rolling out the waste water and water services programme. It is unbelievable that the Deputy has such a brass neck even to make that assertion-----

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy's party has been in Government-----

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: Can I answer the question, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy's party in Government put us in the current financial mess and ceded our economic sovereignty under the EU-IMF programme. The Deputy's party is responsible for that and we are faced with the responsibility of picking up the mess, including septic tanks, to protect groundwater as a result of the Deputy's party's decisions. Fianna Fáil did nothing since 2009 to deal with this.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: We are now cleaning up the mess, literally and metaphorically.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: We must do so after the European Court of Justice decision. Otherwise we will have to pay €2.9 million before the end of the year from taxpayers' funds as a result of Fianna Fáil's inactivity.

Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: That detail will be outlined in the legislation.

Building Regulations (15 Sep 2011)

Phil Hogan: The building regulations set out the legal requirements for the construction of new buildings, including houses. Part D, materials and workmanship, of the building regulations requires that materials used as infill in construction must be "proper materials which are fit for the use for which they are intended and for the conditions in which they are to be used". The presence of pyrite in...