Dr. Michelle Minihan:

As far as I an aware, to date we are the only country that has had infringement proceedings progressed against it. They are moving forward in July of this year. The European Commission has written to Ireland to tell us that we need to provide a response and that we will be going to the European Court of Justice on that. As regards our results, we seem to be an outlier. If we look at our nearest neighbour, we will see from the Drinking Water Inspectorate in England and Wales that they had two THM failures last year across 12,000 samples. This means they had one failure each across two water supplies. We had 58 public water supplies with THM exceedances last year. We seem to be out of kilter with our nearest comparator on that.