Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for the briefing. It has been very informative. I have a series of questions and I will be brief. Where I am coming from is that we are in a housing crisis and there is a capacity issue. My remit, for as long as I am a Deputy, is delivery of affordable housing. The questions are based around that.

Have the Irish Water services deteriorated or got better since the 2007 incident in Oughterard where there was cryptosporidium? At a certain time, it was thought it was cows and, eventually, it was determined it was us polluting the water.

It was mentioned there are 34 areas in the country that are still discharging raw effluent into our watercourses, from 50 in 2014. We have been promised the capacity register by Irish Water. I have not seen it yet. I am not sure whether any of the other Deputies have seen or whether it has come in. However, we have been promised that to see where there is capacity. Have the witnesses seen this capacity register and does it correspond with those 34 raw effluent areas they identify? Is it possible to get a list of the 34 plants? I would be interested to see them.