Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will revert to the Deputy on that. The EPA has a key role. In May 2020, it published a bathing water report. The one piece of good news from that was that it highlighted that 95% of bathing waters met or exceeded the minimum standard required, and that is one of the agency's key tasks. It has to be independent of Irish Water or the local authorities. It is a watchdog and a regulator, and in that it has a key function.

Nevertheless, I return to the fact that there is a structural problem in my constituency and that of the Deputy in regard to those storm surge drains and that will take time to rectify.