Dr. Edmond O'Reilly:

With regard to An Cheathrú Rua in particular, it is one of the untreated agglomerations and is one of 50 which is on a list the EPA has published. We are working and have plans in place for all of those across the country. There are six such areas in Gaeltacht areas among the 43 or 44 settlements which we serve. Indeed, we have come across in the example of An Cheathrú Rua where we have had to re-examine our plans. We are working our way through those issues.

We also have projects in An Spidéal, which is close to An Cheathrú Rua, and that project is well under way and nearing completion. We also have a project in Roundstone in Connemara. Those three areas in particular in that part of the country would be part of the untreated agglomerations programme we have running.

We experience delays in projects, and this has been discussed at length in these rooms, as in other places across the board. It is fair to say a great deal of attention is being paid to the issues which relate to these projects with respect to the delays we experience from the planning and the different statutory consents which we have to achieve, but I ask the Deputy to rest assured that we are working hard on these and, as I said, we have plans in place to resolve the issues in these particular areas.