Mr. Colin Byrne:

To clarify, a couple of initiatives are ongoing and are reflected in our river basin plan, which was published last year. Keeping in mind that we are beginning to put manners on our approach to dealing with non-compliance, our primary objective, which is reflected on page 63 of the plan, is to achieve full compliance with the urban wastewater treatment directive but, thereafter, it is also looking at protected areas such as bathing waters, shellfish waters, high status catchments and priorities that have been identified in the plan, given we prioritise areas. That will have an impact and we will start to take bigger chunks off that list. Another important initiative, which is committed to on page 67 of the plan, is that the EPA will review urban wastewater discharge licences based on a better evidence base. When we do the reassessments, this may change that list because the situation may not be as non-compliant as we had thought. We are in the process of trying to put resources in place within the agency to carry out that review on a prioritising, targeted basis. There are, therefore, a couple of processes ongoing which will start to give us a better handle on that list.