Ms Mary Gurrie:

We have had extensive engagement with local authorities on all water-related matters. Under the second cycle plan, there are many structures and committees in place to ensure collaboration between all the different State agencies and implementing bodies to ensure there is good implementation of the water framework directive, and a sharing of knowledge and information at regional level. There are regional management committees and that feeds all the way up through the governance structures. There is certainly much collaboration with local authorities. We also have the Network for Ireland's Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, the NICE network, which is the enforcement network for local authorities, as part of increasing compliance with the threshold, looking at all the ways we can identify defectors, reach out to them and try to get them on the register. Again, we will go back to the local authorities to see if they have more information to assist us in that regard.