Mr. Des Joyce:

We had a problem with manganese on Inishbofin last year and unfortunately it caused inconvenience to the people on the island. We have improved our treatment system out there and the operations teams worked very hard to clean the pipes and everything afterwards. We are looking to do some more work out there in terms of moving the intake to try to lessen the risk of further manganese. We are probably looking to improve the treatment system out there as well and put in a manganese removal system. Manganese is one of these things that comes from time to time. The risk in manganese can happen very dramatically over 24 hours. Then it might not be seen again for a number of years. We did not have many difficulties on Inishbofin with manganese until last year so we are working to make sure it does not happen again.