John Ellis (Fianna Fail)

In the past month to six weeks I have raised the matter of discharges from treatment units for one-off rural houses where there are no guidelines from the Department and the EPA, both of which stated they were not in a position to do anything about the matter. I am delighted that the Department has now informed me that it will be in a position to issue guidelines at the end of September or the beginning of October. This will help to alleviate the problem we have all experienced in rural areas with one-off houses and the discharges from them.