Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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678. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person purchases a property where the prior owner was late registering for the septic tank charge, it jeopardises the new owners eligibility for the grant for remediation work. [46328/13]

Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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685. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider a matter (details supplied) regarding septic tanks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46453/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I propose taking Questions Nos. 678 and 685 together.

A purchaser of a property may subsequently apply for grant aid once they meet the eligibility criteria set down in the Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2013, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas library . The criteria include the requirement that the treatment system serving the property was originally registered before the prescribed date of 1 February 2013. The only exception to this concerns properties which have a treatment system constructed or installed after 1 February 2013; in such cases the owners should register their systems within 90 days of the connection of the premises to the treatment system.