Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein)

There is another possibility or way of doing this. If one has a house and one wishes to make an alteration to it, one should make an application for a change. Could that work under this system? My concern is that we may be creating a bureaucracy that will lead to duplication every five years and a great deal of additional work within a Civil Service that is already burdened and which we are trying to scale back. We should try to use the existing resources in the best possible way. Could the Minister not put in place a system where one registers only once? The number of people who will add or change a system is rather small in the overall scheme of things. Why not make it a regulation that if someone is going to change their wastewater system then they must re-register or register the change they are making to that system? Surely that would make more sense than creating a bureaucracy that will do this once every five years and which will create more work for paper pushers. We do not need people to do such work and we are trying to cut back on bureaucracy. Non-compliance could be picked up at inspection stage. If the inspectors are qualified then surely they will pick up on a change has been made to a system. This represents a more sensible approach.