Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms O'Brien. Just to summarise, what I am saying is that this Bill is aimed at registering, monitoring and licensing of water abstractions. The data we have has up to this point been held by local authorities and was a bit vague or incomplete. We are now on threshold limits and I think we are all agreed that we should be licensing, monitoring and measuring the impacts of all these. We are at the point now of threshold limits and where they should apply.