Ms Sorcha de Brúch:

I thank the Senator again for raising the issue. On the wider issue of water supply, many of the islands have a water supply piped onto them. In the case of the Aran Islands, they are reliant on table water being shipped in, so that is an issue that needs to be addressed.

One of the projects the former Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht had been involved in was an AranLife project, which ran on the Aran Islands for a five-year period. It has now developed into Caomhnú Árann. One of the projects they did, which was very interesting, was either to revamp or build rainwater catchers for cattle. While it is not quite the same thing, it did reduce the pull on the general water supply.