Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is okay. I am trying to go through the report. Science was probably my worst subject in school. It is very laborious for me to read the report but, in fairness, I am trying to get through it. Going back to my school days, I was struck by one point, namely, that statistics and science are all about interpretation. One man can interpret 50% as very good and another man can interpret it as very bad. If we look at the table on page 6, which shows nitrate concentration, over a 12-year period, if anything, we have not disimproved, and we have probably had a marginal improvement. Mr. Callanan referenced himself the situation in terms of water quality in the Netherlands. It is probably infinitely poorer than ours in terms of the concentration.