Brendan Ryan (Labour)

In light of recent forecasts of a shortage of water in Ireland, particularly in the greater Dublin area, the type of solutions proposed to address those issues, such as desalination of water from the Irish Sea or the pumping of water from the Shannon region, for example, from Lough Ree, the vociferous opposition of people in those regions to such a solution, and Fingal County Council's plans to put a massive superdump on top of a very significant aquifer in the north of Dublin with a serious risk of contamination of that supply, will the Leader ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, to attend the House to inform us of his proposals for water supply into the future and whether he agrees with me that Fingal County Council's plan is at best irresponsible in the current context?