Barry Heneghan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)

The Dublin Bay area has the coastline. In this regard, I commend Deputy Bacik on introducing the Dublin Bay Bill. At present, there are fortnightly tests of water quality with no real-time information. The coastline does not have bacterial sensors. I acknowledge that a lot will be done through legislation but one thing I want to know is whether the Cabinet committee on infrastructure will consider, in addition to the huge investment that is already going into the wastewater treatment plant in the context of the combined sewer outflows, especially at Clontarf and Raheny, and Ringsend and Sandymount on the southside, putting in detention ponds with integrated constructed wetlands, ICWs. These are low cost and have a high outcome when it comes to filtering water and adding biodiversity to an area. I would like an update on that.

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