Mr. David Flynn:

I will turn to some of the questions we had on monitoring the national inspection plan. The current national inspection plan for septic tanks was written by the EPA. It is then given out to local authorities to conduct the inspections. We do an annual review of that inspection plan each year. Later on this year we will be starting the next version of the national inspection plan. We will monitor its implementation and will take the results and use that learning in the development of the next national inspection plan for septic tanks.

As regards the 127 sites and remaining ones, we get all the monitoring data back from Irish Water. Irish Water is monitoring at an operational level each of its plants. There are requirements in the licence in terms of environmental monitoring that Irish Water has to provide back to us once a year. We also conduct our own monitoring. On a one in three-year basis we will be across every single licence site in the country, of which there are currently approximately 505.

As was rightly pointed out, because Gweedore does not have a network at the moment, it does not come under the EPA until the network is in place. Once it does, it will become an agglomeration under the regulations, will require a licence and will become part of the normal process.