Mr. Niall Horgan:

We acknowledge that we have work to do on delivering water quality improvements. Following the recent assessments and as part of the third cycle of river basin management planning, we have come fourth in terms of being a significant pressure impacting on 4% of the water bodies nationally. Many of those bodies will be addressed during the current and future investment cycles. We have plans to start addressing them and expect to move from being the fourth significant pressure down to the sixth or seventh by the end of the next investment period.