Dr. Tom Ryan:

An incident is progressing with a significant boil water notice affecting more than 600,000 people. Last Friday, the EPA conducted an audit in response to the incident to try to verify the performance of the plant at that point to assist in the gathering of information that would be required for the HSE, in conjunction with Irish Water, to lift that boil water notice. We carried out our audit. A series of sampling has to take place and the HSE must be satisfied those samples are clear. A meeting is taking place this afternoon to assess the outcome of that series of samples with a view, if everything is okay, to lifting the boil water notice. The audit we undertook is part of our role and remit to go on site and verify the performance of the plant after an issue or incident such as this happens.