Seanad debates
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage
4:00 pm
Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail)
That is fine. I accept the Chair's ruling on that. The legislation proposes that a private pool of inspectors will be appointed by the agency. What we propose is that those inspectors would be local authority staff, whether new or existing, or staff of the Environmental Protection Agency, whether new or existing. There should be public scrutiny of, and a public link-up, with those inspectors. If, as the Minister suggested, most of the inspectors will be local authority staff anyway, then he should agree to the amendment.
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