Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

The purpose of the amendment is to avoid frustration of the application of section 62(1). It expands the scope of paragraph (b)(iii) to provide for the testing of a sewer not alone where a water services authority has grounds to believe it may permit the infiltration of water but also where it considers it might permit waste water to leak out. The expansion of the scope of the paragraph is intended to cover all eventualities and to prevent spurious challenges to any intervention by a water services authority, for example, on the grounds of difficulty in providing infiltration rather than leakage of water, not withstanding the poor state of repair of a particular pipe.