Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry; I want to interject because this is very important and I want to provide clarity on where the inconsistency lies. If the Commission had been applying the principles it has been applying since 2016, the reply in 2014 would have stated Ireland could not invoke Article 9.4 because it had not included it in the 2009 river basin management plan and that, therefore, it no longer had that entitlement. However, what the Commission stated at that stage was that if Ireland was going to invoke the article, it would have to outline the reasons for so doing and that the matter would be considered in the context of the second river basin management plan.