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

Phil Hogan: Senator Ó Clochartaigh is advocating a reporting mechanism such that each time we carry out some work it is reported to someone to the central registrar. Certainly, that is one way of doing it.

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

Phil Hogan: The Senator is dealing with the definitions now. We have not laid down in legislation what we intend to do in that regard. The second registration will pick up wherever inspections have been carried out in the risk-based areas and whether the work has been carried out. One must allow a certain amount of time for people to carry out work arising from an inspection. Then one can see with...

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

Phil Hogan: The system must work.

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

Phil Hogan: The system has to work to make sure-----

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

Phil Hogan: We cannot have protection of groundwater without a good working system. If groundwater quality is not up to scratch the system has to be changed to deal with that.

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

Phil Hogan: How can we have good groundwater quality if we do not have a system that is able to deal with it?

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

Phil Hogan: There are technologies available-----

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

Phil Hogan: The system is inspected but the ground water is tested to make sure everything is working properly. The objective of the exercise is to ensure we have non-contamination of ground water from septic tanks. That is the ruling from the European Court of Justice. We are doing our best to comply with it through a risk-based approach. I am not introducing a universal system of inspection, which...

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

Phil Hogan: I have and I will keep saying it. One has to have a valid registration, otherwise it is an offence. That clarifies Senator Mooney's question. If one does not have a valid registration, even on reregistration it has to be valid. I am prepared to consider what Senators Ó Domhnaill and Ó Clochartaigh said on the time period and the cumbersome way in which one might have to re-register. I...

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

Phil Hogan: I have already stated that in the regulations I intend to bring forward there will be no charge for re-registration. I intend doing that, and that is the way I will deal with it.

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

Phil Hogan: No, I will not accept the amendment.

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

Phil Hogan: I am looking at it. That is exactly what I am doing.

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

Phil Hogan: I am doing it my way, not the Senator's way.

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

Phil Hogan: No.

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

Phil Hogan: I will do it my way with the regulations.

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

Phil Hogan: It will be in the regulations and I have already announced it. The Senator is getting the result by a different means.

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

Phil Hogan: I am not being disingenuous.

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

Phil Hogan: I do not have to accept the word "disingenuous" from the Senator for any purpose.

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

Phil Hogan: Yes.

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

Phil Hogan: I will do it in the regulations, which will do the same thing.