Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North-West, Fianna Fail)

The point was well made earlier about collecting samples or not taking water samples in the first couple of days. IFI would not be the only ones out there taking samples, though. The EPA would have gone towards the different licence holders and approached them about their data. They would be taking samples of the discharges from the river, as would other organisations, I imagine. Was it a desktop kind of exercise looking at data and the results, or do they still have live samples of water from the river taken over a period of time at that stage? Might they possibly still hold them?