Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 June 2015
779. Deputy Marcella Corcoran Kennedy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered an incentive scheme to encourage home-scale waste treatment plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23395/15]
View answerThe Domestic Waste Water Treatment Systems (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2013, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas library, brought into operation a grants scheme to assist with the cost of remediation of septic tanks and domestic waste water treatment systems which are deemed, following inspection under the EPA’s National Inspection Plan and the subsequent issue of an Advisory Notice by the local authority, to require repair or upgrading. The qualification criteria are set out in the legislation and full details of the scheme, including eligibility criteria, are set out in the explanatory leaflet and application form published on my Department’s website at: http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/Environment/Water/FileDownLoad,33607,en.pdf.
I have no plans to extend or vary the qualifying criteria of the domestic waste water treatment system grants scheme , nor have I any plans introduce incentives regarding treatment systems for household waste.
