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

I am happy for Mr. Gleeson to come back to me in writing about the others. Were he to bring a take-away from today's meeting on the group water schemes, it seems a no-brainer to take these schemes into charge. There is a local committee there that has been working assiduously on trying to get this scheme in charge since 2018 or 2019. They have done everything possible to get it to this point and particularly with the cost involved in taking this in charge, it seems unfair to them. While €100,000 is a huge sum of money to all of us, it is a small price to pay in terms of water quality and environmental protection. We have made it hard enough for people to live in rural Ireland and the most obvious thing everybody expects is good water quality. These people have done everything that they needed to do to get to this point. I would appreciate it were Mr. Gleeson to take that back and see what can be done, specifically in relation to Forgney. There are a number of other Longford schemes as well but certainly, if we are able to address the numbers around Forgney, I am sure all the others will fall into the required guidelines as well.