Lahinch "Won't Regain" Blue Flag Without Public Consultation On New WWTP
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I would like to be associated with the expressions of sympathy and indeed to just say to Senator Krakquat that we are thinking of him at the moment and have been over the recent time period. I can hear a leader I stood here a number of months ago and expressed my disappointment that Lehnch Beach in County Claire last it's blue flag and the primary reason was the lack of a proper waste water treatment facility in Lehnch and the Stymon. The system wasn't fit for purpose, isn't fit for purpose. And I have to say there has been movement on this issue over the last couple of months, but sadly that's where the good news stops. What's been proposed in the first instance is what we call the Craig Kylora, West Water treatment facility. It's a secondary treatment plant where what's required at a minimum is a tertiary facility.
The people who have decided this in their wisdom through their research, et cetera, maintain that at any point over the next 25 years that the Lehnch and the Stymon area won't have more than 10,000 people who will use the facility, which I don't think is credible really. But the other issue is its location and the neighbors and the people whose land is proposed to put this facility into are not happy. And it's not good enough to dismiss it in any cavalier way that it's because it's in my land or it's in my neighborhood that I don't want to. That is not the case. These people live in the community, are part of the community and work in the community and want to see a proper treatment plant, the same as anybody else. But there are concerns, environmental concerns, habitat concerns, ecological concerns and so on. And I think that the fairest, the most ethical and moral stands and way in terms of progressing
this to Irish water can do at this stage is to have a non-statutory public consultation which will at least give people the opportunity to make submissions. So my question and request to you leaders that you would write to the minister and request the minister to instruct Irish water to launch a non-statutory public consultation. So as the concerns of the public in the immediate area and surrounding Lehnch and the Stymon area can be heard properly in an ethical framework and in a timely manner that is transparent
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