Mr. Barry Fox:

Inland Fisheries Ireland has a very narrow field of responsibility with regard to water quality. We are enforcing the inputs of deleterious matter into watercourses but the actual day-to-day water quality sampling to identify the water quality status is the work of a separate agency and is not the role of IFI. While we will monitor water bodies to ensure their health status, the majority of the actual legislative responsibility for water quality lies with the EPA.