Dr. Michelle Minihan:

The Deputy has referred to the number of supplies on the remedial action list increasing to around 565,000 as of last Friday. Six supplies were removed from the remedial action list last Friday, which is a measure of some progress. We did, however, add 11 supplies to the remedial action list. Five of those were for persistent THM exceedances and notable among those was the Clareville plant in Limerick city, which serves approximately 114,000 people and, therefore, that accounts for a considerable jump in the population on our remedial action list. A number of supplies went on for EPA audit observations where we found issues at plants. Another large supply was the Srowland water treatment plant in Kildare, which serves four different water supply zones, and we had other isolated issues around supplies on long-term boil water notices. We had poor turbidity removal in some of them and inadequate treatment for cryptosporidium. There was a variety of reasons but the vast majority of them were for THM exceedances.