Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 209: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will take steps to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is notified by Waterways Ireland when it is piping water from a drain adjacent to this person's farm; if, in view of the importance of water for this person's cattle, there will at all times be adequate water left in the river; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9651/05]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Waterways Ireland is a North-South implementation body, established under the British-Irish Agreement Act 1999, co-sponsored by my Department and the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in the North.

Waterways Ireland advises me that it will liaise with the person concerned on whatever occasion it intends to pipe water from the drain adjacent to this person's farm and will endeavour to agree an acceptable protocol with him.