Whelan slams government over EPA report stating lack of plan for waste water treatment plants

Aontú representative for the Laytown Bettystown electoral area, Peter Whelan has slammed the government after a recently published EPA report stated that the pace at which essential improvements in waste water treatment plants is too slow.

The report also points out that there are 33 Towns and villages without treatment plants, releasing raw sewage into the environment every day.

Peter Whelan said: “Our government leaders are in Glasgow as I speak talking about climate change in the world. Well I’m asking, in fact demanding, that they get their house in order at home first."

"Climate change is basic common sense.Protect our natural resources, and pass them on to the next generation in as good or better state than we received them.

"We need to upgrade our water treatment plants nationally . And we need to do it immediately. Farmers are penalised for leaking effluent into waterways but our government is not ."