Ms Geraldine Tallon:

The consequences for that not happening are that we cannot give any assurance that the treatment plants operated in compliance with the required standards in that period but that situation has been rectified. The regulations are in place. Licences are being processed by EPA and for the future we expect to see full monitoring results from all authorities. There has been a significant improvement in performance by authorities in terms of the sampling regime. There was a failure due to lack of sampling in 30% of cases in 2007 but that had reduced to 3% in 2010, therefore, authorities are taking this responsibility seriously.