Dr. Eimear Cotter:

We do not ignore the impact of other pressures on water. We are looking at all the pressures on our water and have done so over many years. We can provide the committee with the assessment which looks at the number of water bodies that have been impacted by not only agriculture but also by physical changes and by urban wastewater. We are looking at this in its entirety and at where the pressures are in our quality, all of which will need to be addressed if we are to reverse the trends we are seeing in deteriorating water quality in the country.