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Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: What size?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: We will deal with those issues under the planning code. We already gave the references on Committee Stage in respect of the planning code.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I will come back to the Deputy with those references if references are required.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I promise the Deputy I will come back with a response. However, I do not want any more scaremongering about the fact that we are setting up a system for re-registration charges.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I am speaking to Deputy Ó Cuív, through the Chair. There is no re-registration charge required. It is a once-off charge. The primary legislation, which is this legislation, will have to be amended if the Deputy wants to change that. If Fianna Fáil or Sinn Féin in government in the future, supported by Deputy Mattie McGrath, want to do that, it is their business, but I will not do it.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: It is prudent to upgrade one's information on what is happening in respect of ground water quality. As part of our defence, the European Commission would require us to keep abreast of developments in technology but also the condition of ground water. To give us that additional information, the re-registration process is necessary.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Let us deal with what is in front of us. I cannot predict the future and neither can the Deputy. I should say to Deputy Mattie McGrath that his friends in An Taisce have issued a statement to support the legislation. Therefore, they are not going to the EU with another infringement case against Ireland on this legislation.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I say this in case the Deputy has not heard it. The EPA standards of 2009 are for new build.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Where did the Deputy read it?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: They are the ones the Deputy wants.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: With your indulgence, Deputy Ó Cuív asked a question to which I now have the answer.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The repair and-or upgrading of an on-site waste water treatment system will be facilitated by the planning system from a number of perspectives, recognising that effective on-site waste water treatment and disposal arrangements are in the interests of proper planning and sustainable development in general.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Where some aspect of the on-site waste water system and disposal is in need of repair, such works could be considered exempted development within the meaning of section 4(1)(h) of the Planning and Development Act 2000.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: It is incorporated in the 2010 Act. Therefore, the original reference comes through the legislation.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I have answered Deputy Stanley's question on many occasions. It will not be, and the regulations will point out how that will be done.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The 1965 tank that requires remediation will not have to comply-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I am answering Deputy Stanley's question.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Let us suppose there is a problem with a septic tank put in place in 1965. Deputy Stanley was interested to know whether this would have to comply with the 2009 standards and the EPA code. The answer is "No". The answer is that it will be seen in the regulations the Minister will publish how we are to overcome that and deal with it.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: It has nothing to do with the amendment.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: It is all about Deputy Ó Cuív's issues and not about my issues.