Jim D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would ask the Cathaoirleach to give me 30 seconds more. Tests by Louth County Council indicate that the water supply for Dundalk is not yet affected but surely it is only a matter of time. As people, particularly children and young babies, are at risk due to this contamination, I ask the Leader to invite the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Simon Harris, into this House as a matter of the greatest urgency to comment on these happenings and the issue of diesel laundering in general, and I would also ask that the Minister of State, in his role as Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works, commission and produce a report on the level of toxicity in the streams and shucks of south Armagh and north Louth in conjunction with the Department of the Environment in Northern Ireland.