Mr. Mark Griffin:

EPA is a key stakeholder in terms of Irish Water's decision-making around its investment programme. For example, EPA would look at Ireland's compliance with the urban wastewater treatment directive, the drinking water directive and the water quality and water framework directives. The EPA produces reports, such as the state of the environment report published during the course of 2020. There is ongoing engagement between the EPA and Irish Water. This is important in framing the nature of the investments that need to be made.

One thing the EPA has done in recent years is maintain a remedial action list. One issue that springs to mind relates to the difficulties that were experienced in Roscommon until some years ago. Irish Water invested significantly and it seems to have addressed that issue well. That was based on the work the EPA did in the remedial action list. All of that feeds into the investment decision-making and the establishment of the overall investment programme by Irish Water.