Ms Angela Ryan:

The abstraction legislation has been enacted and the secondary legislation for regulations is under development. We anticipate that those regulations will be completed within the next number of weeks. In the background Uisce Éireann has been doing preparatory work relating to all of our existing abstractions and has been teeing up the environmental assessments that will be required for new abstractions, such as the proposed abstraction from the Parteen Basin. We are working with our colleagues in the ESB in that regard.