Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grant assistance available for works (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24711/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

Under the Water Services Acts 2007 and 2012 (Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems) Regulations 2012, the owner of a domestic waste water treatment system is responsible for its maintenance and renewal and shall ensure that its parts and components are fit for purpose, operational where appropriate and kept in good order and repair so as to prevent a risk to human health or environment.

Furthermore, the Water Services Acts 2007 and Domestic Waste Water Treatment System (Registration) Regulations 2012 (No. 222 of 2012)provide that all owners of houses served by an individual domestic waste water treatment system had to have the system entered into the register maintained by local authorities, by a “prescribed date”. This date being 1st February 2013. TheDomestic Waste Water Treatment System (Registration)(Amendment) Regulations 2013 (No. 180 of 2013)sets out that all systems constructed or installed after this date must ensure the new treatment system is registered within 90 days of connection.

Houses that failed to register by the prescribed date, as set out above, are not eligible for grant support under the Department's scheme to upgrade domestic waste water treatment systems.