"Green" policies are destroying this country

Did you ever read that report by the EPA on Irish Water, (a state owned utility company), and urban sewage or are your concerns on improving water quality just confined for some reason to dairy farming ?

"49% of the combined sewage loading that arises in large urban areas in Ireland is discharged from treatment plants that are not meetint the mandatory European Union treatment and effulent quality standards. And that is for sewage that makes it to those treatment plants."

Irish Water loses 37% of mains water through leaks, so I doubt the leakage is less from mains sewage. But lets say for the sake of argyement it is. That would mean that 37% of raw sewage from urban areas leaks into the ground before it reaches treatment plants. And even that does not include the 7.5 million litres of raw untreated urban sewage that is discharged daily into waterways.

The EPA report goes on to say : "Irish Water still does not have clear plans and time frames to improve discharges from 27 priority areas where waste water is a significant pressure on water bodies at risk of not meeting their environmental objectives."

We are being told by Irish greens that if we in Ireland set a good example on emissions then the rest of the world will see the error of there ways and follow our us. Do you not think that when it comes to improving water quality the same should apply especially for a fully owned state utility company before going lecturing to anybody else ?

Not just dairy farming all farming is damaging the environment

For someone so energised about water quality based on EPA reports, when it comes to a state utility company reports by the EPA on same you appear to have a very laissez faire outlook.

Could that have anything to do with one being in realation to rural matters, whereas the other is in relation to a state utility company responsible for 75% of the countries sewage that is failing on multiple level when it comes to meeting mandatory E.U. requirements ?

"A law to make cyclists use a cycle lane" is always a sure fire way to indicate a poster has no idea what they're talking about and simply don't cycle anywhere.

And the Green party is still the scary bogeyman for you, it's literally at the start of the story, they're not his proposals FFS.

I wish I had known about this generous gifting of perfectly usable solar panels by industry before I paid big bucks to the solar industry to buy new ones. Must keep my ear to the ground to take advamtage if I decide to extend my solar capacity.

Ya wouldn't have any issues with people upgrading cars every couple of years so. Or changing their phone to the newer model. Or the whole fast fashion thingy. I've been wrong about what I thought green was.

a 20 year service cycle is fairly good for industry. As I said I think you are picking fault with what amounts to standard practice across all industry.

Read the post I quoted, it's from there, you should know as you made it.

Advocating for such a law is ridiculous.

You keep claiming this but have shown no evidence that the identified cause (farmers) is not the far larger contributor to water nitrates. I would freely admit that the water industry has a lot of catching up to do with regard to discharges - but farmers are discharging on practically every acre of land within the country. Farming has been empirically identified as the main source of water contamination in the state - and this was by the EPA under the direction of the EU.

You already know that, a garda told you. remember?

I`m not claiming anything when it comes to the states utility company`s failings in complying with E.U. mandatory requirements. It`s in the reports of the very same EPA you are so exercised about when it comes to rural issues in relation to wateway pollution but have apparently no problem having a laissez-faire (allow to do) attitude to when it comes to urban sewage pollution of waterways.

That I find very strange. Especially where we have Irish greens telling us that we should be setting a good example on emissions etc to show the world the error of their ways. Would it not be an idea on that basis for the state to clean up it`s own mess before dictating to others ?

Btw. Still waiting on an answer to my question on your posts regarding solar panels.

2 wrongs don't make a right instead of trying to shift the blame take some responsibility for once

To be fair, this was known for a long time but the planning barriers put a stop to it. I was denied planning on 3 occasions to put panels on sheds over the last decade. Amazing what people will do when they're allowed and are supported

Well you can thank the greens for the new agri solar grant way higher than domestic fair play to them