Caít Keane (Fine Gael)

The intention of the legislation is to ensure the owner of the system does not constitute a risk to human health "and, in particular, does not ... create a risk to [the] water, air or soil". Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill's amendment proposes to substitute this with the phrase, "make a practical effort". That is tantamount to saying it will be all right on the night and that while one will bring forward a few laws stating people must make an effort to do this, they really will not be so obliged. This might be how legislation was envisaged long ago, whereby laws were introduced but people only needed to try to make an effort.