Ms Mary Gurrie:

Going back to our overall national assessment, we know that about 1,000 water bodies are impacted by agriculture, approximately 200 are impacted by wastewater and 160 or so are impacted by septic tanks and domestic systems. Where there is a problem with water quality, as Dr. Deakin and Dr. Cotter have explained, we can look at what the problem in that water body is and what is going on in that environment and catchment that could potentially be the source of that problem. As a State, we have problems with wastewater. We know where they are and there is a lot of investment happening through Uisce Éireann developments------