Seanad debates

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage

 

4:00 pm

Photo of Brian Ó DomhnaillBrian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail)

I am referring to the powers of the inspectors. If the inspectors make their inspections on the basis of those Environmental Protection Agency guidelines, I presume they will tell many people with septic tanks that they do not meet the required standards. They will be saying that on the basis of the Environmental Protection Agency guidelines. A site of at least three quarters of an acre will be required in the case of a four-bedroom house, for example, according to the percolation requirements set out in the Environmental Protection Agency guidelines. That is what I have been told by architects and site assessors, who are professional experts with indemnity insurance. What will happen to people in four-bedroom houses that were built on sites of half or quarter of an acre? What will become of those people?

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