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IRELAND HAS BEEN has been found guilty of failing to fulfil its obligations under EU legislation to ensure drinking complied with standards relating to dangerous chemical compounds in water supplies.
The European Court of Justice ruled the concentration of the chemical compound trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water in a large number of public water supplies in the Republic had persistently exceeded recommended safety limits since at least 2012 while the deadline for compliance had been 2003.
The CJEU said Ireland could not fully justify the persistent failure to fulfil its obligations as excessive levels of THMs had been found in drinking water in Ireland “over a considerable time period.”
THMs are found in drinking water, especially in water treatment systems that use chlorine to remove bacteria and other contaminants.
They are formed as a result of interaction between organic materials such as soil and rotting vegetation and chlorine.
The findings by the CJEU relate to 21 public water supplies and nine private water group schemes.
The public water schemes include those supplying drinking water to Kilkenny city; Bray, Co Wicklow; Schull, Co Cork; Ring, Co Waterford; Glenties, Co Donegal; Greystones, Co Wicklow and Granard, Co Longford.
THMs are considered dangerous to both human health and the environment with high levels of THMs linked to diseases of the liver, kidney and central nervous system as well as bladder and colon cancer.
They can also cause gastrointestinal problems and skin irritation.
The CJEU also ruled that Ireland failed to adopt as quickly as possible the necessary corrective measures to restore the quality of drinking water in these areas.
It noted that notice of a reasoned opinion of an alleged breach by Ireland was issued over 17 years after the deadline for complying with the EU directive on drinking water.
The European Commission claimed the creation of Irish Water (now Uisce Éireann in 2013) merely demonstrated that Ireland had been slow to act given its deadline for compliance with EU standards was 10 years earlier.
It initiated legal proceedings against Ireland after it was dissatisfied with the response of Irish authorities to requests for information on how they were ensuring drinking water in Ireland was complying with EU legislation.
The Government was first informed by Brussels in May 2015 that it was not meeting the requirements of an EU directive in relation to THMs.
Originally, the European Commission claimed there were excessive THM levels in 73 public water supplies affecting a population of over 481,000 as well as 22 private group water schemes supplying almost 23,000 people.
The European Commission issued a reasoned opinion in May 2020 that Ireland was failing to meet its obligations relating to drinking water standards, with legal proceedings initiated after unsatisfactory responses were provided by the Government in progress reports supplied between September 2020 and June 2021.
The ruling by the Luxembourg-based court on Thursday requires Ireland to comply with the judgment without delay as well as pay the legal costs of the case.
The European Commission may also bring a further action seeking financial penalties for any ongoing delay in complying with the EU directive on drinking water standards.
The CJEU dismissed an application by lawyers for the Irish government that the action relating to three public water schemes in Drimoleague, Co Cork; Ring/Helvick, Co Waterford and Grangemore, Co Kildare should be inadmissible as they no longer existed.
It also rejected the legal argument by Ireland that the EU directive did not impose an obligation to achieve a result, while also arguing the European Commission had not provided sufficient evidence about the alleged failure to meet the standards on drinking water.
Ireland claimed the failure of the 22 public and nine private water schemes to comply with the maximum limits on THMs did not necessarily mean the State had failed to comply with its obligations under EU legislation.
It also argued that specific geographical and environmental factors such as the presence of peat and higher than average rainfall should be considered as they made compliance with EU standards challenging.
They claimed the necessary remedial measures often required the installation of new or substantially upgraded water treatment plants which required a significant amount of time and capital investment.
However, the CJEU said Ireland had failed to seek any of the available derogations on the issue.
It noted that estimated dates for when compliance would be achieved were deferred by Ireland each time it supplied a new progress report.
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Backed to the teeth by Uncle Sam…
Good on Uncle Sam.
The shy retiring Benny Netanyahu pushed through a law recently allowing the IDF to shoot stone throwers with live rounds.Awaiting a lot of deaths over the next few days.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/25/israel-live-ammunition-measures
America’s bed buddies like two peas in a pod when it comes to barbarism.
The world has stood by and allowed Israel freereign over the Palestinians. The have been left no choice but to resort to violence. Its only those who have no clue who could support the terror rained down by Israel. Isnt it also illegal to settle on Palestinian land? Those people should not have been there.
@ hypernova… if you got a slap of half a brick in the face it might make you want to shoot the b******d…….its not “pebbles “
I like how the journal have a lengthly article about the Jews injuring a few Arabs yet didn’t have any report of the couple being shot in front of their kids until now!
You stay classy journal!
Also does this headline suggest that the couple being shot dead in front of their kids was a form of “Protest”
Sick, just sick!
@Bill Madden. Elderly Israeli murdered by Killer Rock-throwers just 2 weeks ago.
@ Patrick: 800+ children murdered by Israeli killer bomb throwers last year.
Your point is?
@For Connolly. Read the posts from Hypernova to Bill Madden to myself and if you can’t you connect the dots you can’t be helped.
&Patrick,
What happened to the Israeli settlers who burned alive the Palestinian family, father and children several weeks ago…..look it up research it and look for the justice and hypo racy.
muslim youth stab four members of a jewish family today killing their dad,just for walking past a mosque.Not reported either
Zionist terrorists
So it’s okay to shoot an unarmed innocent couple in their car in front of their 4 children ? The authorities are supposed to sit back and do nothing in the hunt for these cold blooded murderers?
A man was shot in front of his 4 kids. I would hope that Israel would do anything within it’s power to find the actual terrorists.
“So it’s okay to shoot an unarmed innocent couple in their car in front of their 4 children ? ”
Don’t recall the bloke saying that alan.
He used two words, Zionist terroritsts, both of which are demonstrably true.
I’m not saying they deserved to be sot, no one does, but they were living on occupied land.
No answer jamiing, but I suppose sweeping statements us all your good for, oh and stalking people.
Terrorism – the act of using violence, intimidation and fear for political ends.
The heavy handed tactics of the jackbooted thugs of the IDF is terrorism 101.
So Palestinians are all innocent? …It is your hatred Anna bigotry one way?
Deborah. That’s exactly what you are saying. I’m not a racist but….
Share us with is the act of terrorism in this story jamming. I know facts aren’t your forte but the terrorism was the murder of a father of 4. In front of his kids. And you defend this barbarism. You’re a sick man.
@ Jon, it’s ok you can call them Jewish terrorists, we all know that’s what people mean! The same old crap, bad Jew good Arab/gentile, they have been listening to that old cobblers since the Romans expelled the Jews from their homeland (what SOME of you clowns “occupied” Jerusalem /West Bank!
well western Poland is occupied German East Prussia good bit of Croatia is occupied Serbia for instance
You are saying it Deborah
Isn’t that what the real Connolly did ? , use terrorism for political ends
Israel are the real terrorists. No Israeli should be in this land, they are illegally occupying it. That is not just me stating that, but the international community, see UN Resolution 242. Ironic to see the attacker spared the children here yet Israel have no problem dropping 1ton bombs on civilian neighbourhoods..
@Chris Jordan. That is not the UN”s position at all at all. See below UN 242 resolution,etc.
—”The “occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza was not an occupation of Palestinian territory. It simply retook these two areas from the Jordanians and the Egyptians, who had been occupying them since 1948. Today, Gaza has been wholly given over to the Palestinian people. The Israeli administration of the West Bank is totally legal under international law and is endorsed by UN Resolution 242 (1967), which makes it clear that Israel has to move out from only some of the territory, and that only once the Palestinians have agreed to final and secure borders for Israel, and have recognized the state of Israel — something they have never done. It is also legalized under the Israel-Jordan peace treaty of 1987 and the 1993 and 1995 Oslo Accords.—”
Those who need a good brush up on the Arab/Israeli conflict I recommend the article by distinguished Irish writer Denis MacEoin in link below..
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6584/palestinian-lies
Said it before say it again Started with crucifying Jesus in favor of a terrorist and haven’t changed since …
Here is an actual excerpt from the resolution Patrick
“Affirms that the fulfillment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:
Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict
Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force;
The state of Palestine includes the West Bank and Gaza. The above is related to, though not in its entirety the lands of the West Bank forcibly occupied by Israel in 1967. Not Judea and Samaria it is the West Bank, Palestine.
No no Jon, sure only Muslims can be terrorists! Everyone knows that.
@Chris Jordan.Source please?
@ Patrick. IT IS IN THE RESOLUTION explicitly, verbatim, word for word. Not from an anti Palestinian website that you have linked from. The actual UN..
And since you are well versed in this Chris, I’m sure you’re aware that UN resolutions have absolutely no legal standing whatsoever. So you have no argument.
No document has ever changed Israel’s right to all of Palestine.
By the way calling it the west bank is actually worse than calling Derry Londonderry. The West Bank was an invented name by the Arabs from their illegal occupation only 60 years ago. It has zero historical significance
I hope the Israelis catch the killers. Naturally, Hamas praised the killing of the 2 parents.
To be fair most people in the west bank support HAMAS They would win any election there
Of course Hamas would win any election sure didn’t they murder all the opposition
They probably deserved it Clifford
@Clifford Brennan. Not only praise but they had a big celebration.
—’Disgusting: Palestinians launched fireworks on Thursday to celebrate the brutal slaying of an Israeli couple in a shooting attack.
By Shiryn Ghermezian, algemeiner.com
Throngs of Palestinians took to the streets on Thursday night to celebrate the brutal slaying of an Israeli couple in a shooting attack in the West Bank.
The festivities included the launching of fireworks and the waving of flags in the streets, Ofir Gendelman, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Disgusting: Palestinians launched fireworks on Thursday to celebrate the brutal slaying of an Israeli couple in a shooting attack.By Shiryn Ghermezian, algemeiner.com
http://www.collive.com/show_news.rtx?id=37292&alias=arabs-celebrate-couples-murder
Any non-Zionist news sources Patrick?
can’t fathom that.
So the murder of a man in front of his kids is ok because he is Jewish?
did you see the video of 2 journalists being attacked by the IDF 2 days ago. Google it and watch it. they take the cameras and flash cards off them and destroy them. fortunately they were caught on camera. AFP are doing their nut over it. oh and they give them a few skelps across the head for good measure too all at gunpoint. imagine what they do when there are no cameras around.
Most military forces would do that to people recording them… And I think “attack” is a bit of an extremist idea.
Like Hammas!
I hope the murderers are caught soon.
The ones in Uniform shooting live rounds at stone throwing kids who had their parents land stolen.
Luckily for them ghey have 23 other arab states to go to! Enjoy :)
not even proof reading your headlines anymore
So it’s ok to kill someone simple because he is Jewish, Marc?
Both parents were murdered.
waiting for patrick. tick tock tick tock.
ok. he’s obviously gone to read the manual on how to respond to this situation so I’ll give it a go for him. hamas fire rockets, hide in schools and churches and hospitals, dress jihadis in kids clothes and send them onto a beach with a football bomb to kill Israelis, mohomed makes them do it, want all israel dead blah blah blah, South Sudan , islamapologists boo hoo hoo america right Russia wrong barrel bombs Iran bad
It seems to be OK to murder Muslims though, the IDF and ‘settlers’ average six a week, there never seems to be the same response from the security(occupation) forces then.the procedure if a ‘settler’ is firing on Palestinians is to wait for them to run out of ammunition and then arrest them, not surprisingly they are not so tolerant when the situation is reversed
The real descendants of Abraham are mostly the Palestinians living in and around modern day Israel. The modern day Jews are a Russian race who were dispersed throughout Europe and finally to Israel after WWII. None of their ancestors come from Israel. This is fact. A Jewish historian spent 30 years researching this.
Og you are an idiot keep quiet until you know what you are talking about , everything you have said is incorrect
Look up the Khazars, Mike. They’re the ancestors of the “white Jews”.
Can you dispute DNA evidence?
Great to see your anti semitism out in public Marc. Your parents will be proud. I see you’re a NASA fan. All those Jewish engineers and scientists must really hurt your feelings
Israel must be stopped, this is going on too long.
Hamas need to be stopped. They are as bad as ISIS.
They are worse than ISIS. There are people in this very comment thread who agree with their cause. That is far more dangerous
Marc get help.
Haaretz reporting that an orthodox family of 4 stabbed in Jerusalem today, including a 2 year Zionist terrorist. Attacker shot dead by security services.
The Palestinians murdered this evening 2 Israeli civilians and wounded a tourist (Yes, just like the radical islamist in Tunis…) Yesterday the Palestinians killed a young Israeli couple – again Jews – in front of the eyes of their 4 children!!!! Why don’t you write a word about it???? How can you be so baised? it’s not fair! This anti Israel obsession is called Antisemitism! Do you get it? I bet you won’t even publish my comment and remove me forever from your comment section. If you do that – God (if exists) will get even with you… Don’t be surprised…
antisemitism antimuslim antichristian aunty Mary. it’s all here in the journal. you get used to it. and welcome to the journal.
Everytime somebody stands up to Israel we here this term “antisemite”. The Palestinians have more semite blood than the Jews. Look it up. The educated Jews will also tell you this. This does not however sit well with the military who want to wipe the Palestinians from the face of the earth. Their words, not mine.
@ Meital : Finding Israels treatment of the Palestinians disgusting and unacceptable makes you an anti-Semite in the same way that finding Bill Cosbys alleged treatment of women disgusting and unacceptable makes you a racist.
Go to hell meitel your God is waiting
Spot on Meital , completely agree with you , don’t mind the crowd here they are mostly Shinners who are best friends with Hamas , for all its faults Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East
Machine head superiority complex were have we seen that before. Germany last century.
Yes.
Yes
Marc that’s a bit too far. Israel as a people aren’t responsible for the actions of a few. most of them don’t want trouble with the palestinians. it’s just sad that the minority are calling the shots. no more than we are not all clowns because of some eijits in the Dail that decided irish water would be a good idea.
Joe your probably right I’m going too far only because I’m repulsed with the Israelis treatment of the Palestinian people
Left if it’s anti Semitic to be utterly repulsed by isreals campaign of terror on weaker force then I’ll wear that badge with honour
It’s vile that some dirt bags on here agree with that idiot dating that is ok to murder someone who’s Jewish. …..No wonder Israel exists And is what it is. …
but murder of a man in front of his kids is also that badge marc.
What can you expect from an apartheid regime?
Xionazism.
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