Mr. Anthony Coleman:

I turn to the issue in the farming community. We recognise the pressures, but we also know that the agricultural sector is the largest pressure on water quality, and the largest burden falls there. While Uisce Éireann and other sectors such as forestry, septic tanks and urban wastewater all need to be addressed, the greatest challenge is in agriculture. It is important the message goes out that we need the farming community to come on board with this. If it believes the derogation is going to be lost and cannot be saved then that will be a self-fulfilling prophecy, and we do not want that to happen. We need to get behind all of the initiatives there and encourage the sector to take a whole sector approach to dealing with it.