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Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: Their Government was unable to persuade the European Court of Justice that septic tanks were not a contaminant of ground water.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Government prosecuted the case.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: The case was made and the Government lost.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: It was lost in 2009. It was re-entered in May this year because the previous Government failed to implement the outcome of the court case.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I brought proposals to the Government to deal with this. Otherwise we would have to pay. As a taxpayer, Senator Walsh does not want to pay out €26,000 per day but that is what we will be faced with if we do not have an inspection and monitoring system to deal with this in a risk-based model. The legislation I propose is on that basis, not on having a universal inspection of every house,...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: They voted against good public health issues, good ground water and a good environment. They voted against the commitment made in their party's revised programme for Government-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: We will introduce effective septic tanks.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: They have gone against-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: The Senator was not consulted? He was a member of the parliamentary party but he did not have any say?

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I want to bring in good quality ground water and standards and a public health environment which the Fianna Fáil Party opposes. I want to do so in a way that complies with the judgment of the European Court of Justice concerning which the Senators' Government failed to deliver for us. Ireland was defeated in the court because of the Fianna Fáil Party's inactivity and inaction.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I am referring to the issue before the House.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: We are obliged under the urban waste water directive to comply with local authority plants that must be brought into line. Otherwise we will face fines under the water framework directive in 2015 and 2016. I have a programme in place to ensure that will not happen to us. All over County Wexford-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I did not interrupt Senator Cullinane.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: We are where we are in regard to the European Court of Justice judgment and that is why we are here. Perhaps Senators can offer me a different way to resolve these issues without having an inspection and monitoring system for septic tanks. I will clarify this point for Senator Ó Domhnaill. What we are dealing with, specifically, are individual houses with septic tanks. We are not dealing...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: Senator Ó Domhnaill does not seem to understand the purpose of Committee Stage.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I am not surprised.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: Why is the Senator's party not supporting the Bill itself?

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I am disappointed with the Senator.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I have never heard such nonsense in all my life.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: It is time to call it off now anyway.