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THE MANDATORY REGISTRATION of septic charges ahead of their nationwide inspection will be delayed by some time, the Department of the Environment has admitted.
The Department last night advised that there had been a delay in setting up the registration system for domestic waste water systems and septic tanks, as was required under legislation approved by the Dáil earlier this year.
Hogan last month said he expected to sign commencement orders for the Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012 by mid-April – but this has now been deferred for an unspecified time.
The Department said last night that the reduced fee of €5 announced by environment minister Phil Hogan, incentivising people to sign up for inspections within the first three months, would only kick in whenever registrations were formally opened.
The delay will put further pressure on Hogan, who is already under fire for the poor registrations for the household charge, as well as the ongoing confusion over the rollout of water metering and charges.
Legislation requiring registration and regulation of septic tank standards was required following a 2009 finding by the European Court of Justice that Ireland had not implemented a set of EU waste-water directives dating from 1975.
The rushed implementation of the legislation led to rows between the government and opposition sides, with the government saying it would face immediate fines if it did not have the legislation enacted by February 3.
This was disputed by the European Commission and the opposition parties.
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Hi Martine,
Trust is something too many Irish people don’t have in out own government let alone the EU. Each week in Ireland there is a new political scandal and the majority of people have given up even looking at how out political system works.
The feeling here among too many is also a huge distrust to the EU. We have shouldered the most out of all European citizens for a private banking debt (check eurostadt figure please) and have been let to fend completely for ourselves with no ‘deal’ or ‘seismic shifts’ add that to the now weekly scandals from justice system, banking debt lies and the continuation of party cronyism by our very own prime minister. Trust? That’s a long way off yet I’m afraid.
We need a modern framework for all aspects of government!
I can’t believe the EU is serious about data protection until the Safe Harbour agreement is discontinued. With the Snowden revelations and the ongoing court case to seize data from Irish-based Microsoft servers we know we can never trust our data’s security outside our borders.
This will be very good for EU citizens. At present your rights with respect to data protection vary depending on where the data is held. It would be nice to standardise that a bit, even if it only applies to the EU.
People want their data secure…
People want to trust politicians…
Yeah we need a change…
” post to fb, backup to cloud, #mydeepestsecrets, remember password”
Lmfao
Back to the carrier pigeon.
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