Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I will come in with the last eight minutes for myself.

I want to turn to the issue of bathing water quality. We have not covered it in depth. In 2019 there was a series of meetings between Dublin city councillors, the HSE, Irish Water and the EPA, regarding some concerns around bathing water quality. It was very unfortunate that on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Liffey swim, there was an incident involving Fingal County Council with the release of infected - if that is the right word - water into the Liffey. I want to talk about the learnings from that process, from water quality in general, bathing water quality, and then to talk about the overlap between the EPA and the HSE on bathing water as opposed to drinking water.