Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)

I do not know of any situation where grants have been included in legislation. Perhaps Senator Byrne would point me in that direction.

We will consider a grant scheme once the inspection period in 2013 is over and where we see the extent of the work that has to be done in remediation for the one-in-five households that will be inspected on the basis of this risk-based approach.

On any of the scaremongering that we have heard about all of the various charges and the amount of money that it will cost, it costs €2,000 to put in a septic tank and I do not know from where Senator Ó Domhnaill gets €17,000.