Mr. Darragh Page:

The EPA is the regulator for drinking water quality in Ireland and we have responsibility to assess the performance of Irish Water and all the water treatment plants in public ownership throughout the country. Irish Water has to notify the EPA whenever there is a failure to meet a water quality standard or if there is an incident that affects the quality of drinking water. Aside from this, we carry out an auditing programme of the water treatment plants throughout the country where some of the audits are carried out in response to incidents and others are carried out at plants that are performing adequately as a random check of those. We have an ongoing role. At the end of the year, every monitoring result carried out on drinking water taps throughout the country is submitted to the EPA. There are almost 200,000 test results. We assess them and publish them every year as part of our annual drinking water report.