Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2022-11-22
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Fintan Warfield (SF), Cultural and Educational Panel

Yes. We are not opposing this section per se . We would just appreciate the Government's rationale and for the Minister of State to clarify how the agency will determine if an existing abstraction of below 25 cu. m is causing a deterioration if it is not registered. We have already said the thresholds are a departure from the trends across Europe and in the North and we are diverging somewhat from those. We are expressing our concerns in respect of the appropriateness of the thresholds and asking the Minister of State to clarify his position in order that the record will show it for evermore. My understanding was that the Minister of State had to leave and that the discussion was left there.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-22