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Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I understand the reason the Deputy was not here.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Did Deputy Healy-Rae tell them the truth?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: It is a very bad one.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I am sure Deputy Healy-Rae told people the full information about what we were discussing here today and told them the fact that I have said on many occasions that no planning will be required and that all we want to know is the year the septic tank was provided on a particular dwelling, irrespective of whether it was in the 1940s, 1970s or 1980s. We want to know whether the septic tank is...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Deputy Ó Cuív mentioned a few times on Committee Stage the fact that he made every effort to include regulations as part of the legislation.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: What did you say?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: In the case of the Official Languages Act 2003 he did not do that.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy did not.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I have it here, and the Deputy did not do it.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Perhaps it is one that escapes the Deputy's mind.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I have the record; I checked it.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: When I became Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, I was handed a European Court of Justice judgment in respect of which we had failed to achieve a victory in 2009.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy lost that one.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy and his Government were doing something about it. Proposals were brought as far as Cabinet. I read them earlier for the benefit of other Deputies but I will give Deputy Ó Cuív a flavour of what was involved here. The Deputy and his Government said at the time that, arising from a consultation in October-November 2010, where his Government had committed to file a defence with...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: These are the standards that we now know-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: We now know that the cat is now out of the bag. The Deputy was prepared to bring in stringent standards for inspection and monitoring of septic tanks and he never told us about it and neither did he tell the people at all the public meetings he attended about all the various standards he was prepared to bring in. I am not prepared to bring in those standards.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: They are too onerous and too rigid for people and I have no notion of bringing in the standards that Deputy Ó Cuív was prepared to bring in when he was Minister and which he agreed in Cabinet to bring in. He should tell the people of Connemara and those attending public meetings the implications of his policy arising from what he intended to do in 2010.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: What was the estimate?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: No.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I will have a bet with the Deputy on that.