Septic tank charge for the bondholders

I write cringe riddled as I listened to our newly crowned “Minister for Septic Tanks and Household taxes” Phil Hogan, deliver an awkward justification for such taxes to our rural people, knowing as he surely must, that massive gaps exist in European and domestic legislation surrounding water quality, standards and treatment.

While his carefully crafted script espoused inspections water quality, rural jobs and keeping our environment clean etc. He conveniently sidestepped two glaringly obvious flaws. Rural dwellers and farmers already inspect and maintain their own facilities of their own volition, at considerable expense to themselves. The other made no mention of “fracking” the lethal process in which rock shale is fractured by high volume water pressure, to harness gas deposits. The water residues of which are so toxic that they have to be stored in special man made lakes.

The whole point of Mr Hogan’s tax he says is to enable councils to keep the environment clean and pollution free, as do European directives on water pollution. So can anybody tell me how my family’s waste, which is purely natural and biodegradable equates to being more harmful to the environment than fracking.