Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein)

I appreciate the Minister's reply. It strikes me as strange that if we have been found to be in contravention of an ECJ ruling, which obviously lays down a certain standard for water quality, that the ruling did not indicate a proper water quality standard to be adhered to. Therefore, it is strange that officials in his Department would not have said that when the water quality is checked, this is the standard we should be looking at. It is not unreasonable to ask that be made available to people in advance, as part of the discussion around this Bill, it is quite fair. Some 36 years have elapsed since this directive was introduced in 1965 and successive Governments failed to implement it. Cavan has introduced some regulation which states that water quality is at a standard that would not contravene the ECJ ruling. It must be clear from that what the water quality level should be and that should be made available as part of the discussion on the Bill.