Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:

On the Dublin supply, the Bill is very important to facilitate the application for the abstraction of water from the Shannon river for the Dublin region and the region in between, the midlands and eastern region. The process will be undertaken by Irish Water in terms of developing the proposals that would be consented to. The abstraction licence is a consent matter for the EPA and a planning matter for An Bord Pleanála and there are further controls. A project of this scale, under the public spending code, requires checkpoints to be agreed by the Government. Projects worth over €100 million, under the new public spending code, must go to Government at particular points through the planning process.