Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The provision of water and wastewater treatment facilities is a devolved function for local government. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government does not interfere in that. That may have been the way things happened in the past but it is not going to happen now. I will not interfere in matters pertaining to the detailed analysis that consultants carry out, in an independent fashion, in site evaluation for any project.