Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Donegal County Council, for example, intends to lay a sewerage outfall pipe in Lough Foyle but the entire lough floor is claimed by the United Kingdom, and this could be a point of difference between Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as with the neighbouring local authorities. What happens then is that the local authority has to produce an environmental impact statement, the Northern Ireland environment agency has to agree all of the procedures as well as the Irish authorities, and the jurisdiction that could be disputed in Lough Foyle between both Northern Ireland and Donegal County Council could be the subject of a dispute resolution under this convention. That is an example of where one could have a difficulty in the event that there was not agreement between the neighbouring authorities and neighbouring governments in relation to a matter such as Lough Foyle.