Mr. Jerry Grant:

I wish to make two comments. The role of the Public Water Forum as outlined by Dr. Collins could be very valuable in terms of catchment management. It must be emphasised that the quality and safety of drinking water can be hugely influenced by what people do in the catchment. Pesticides are a very good example. We can deal with that either by controlling them or we can try to retrofit a very expensive treatment into our plants. That is an important point.

On Deputy O'Sullivan's point, we established a cross-sectoral forum for bouncing ideas. That has been very useful. It is quite specific. It includes people from agriculture, various commercial sectors, NGOs and so forth. It has been useful for bouncing ideas and plans. That said, we will not duplicate anything that exists. I believe those involved have found it useful for communicating around fairly narrower issues.