Seán Ryan (Dublin North, Labour)
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Question 569: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way he responded to the decision of the European Court of Justice Case C282/05 Commission [i]v[/i]. Ireland, for [i]inter alia [/i]not having an authorisation system for discharges from urban waste water treatment plants and other waste water infrastructures. [40362/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is in ongoing communication with the European Commission regarding the measures which continue to be put in place to comply with the wide-ranging judgment of the European Court of Justice in Case C-282/02 in relation to implementation of the Dangerous Substances Directive in Ireland.

One of the measures proposed is the licensing of urban waste water discharges from local authority treatment plants. Consultations are taking place between my Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the European Commission and other relevant Government Departments on a draft of regulations which it is proposed to make under section 59 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992. The proposed regulations will provide for a framework for the licensing of such discharges and give further effect to provisions of the EU Dangerous Substances Directive (76/464/EEC) and the EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC).