Written answers
Thursday, 30 June 2005
Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Water Pollution
8:00 pm
John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 288: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the measures his Department and the fisheries board intend to take following the Environmental Protection Agency report on water quality (details supplied). [23755/05]
Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Primary responsibility for protecting water quality rests with the relevant local authorities and proposals to deal with environmental threats in this area are a matter for these bodies to decide in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Under the Fisheries Acts, the central and regional fisheries boards that have primary responsibility for the protection, conservation and management of inland fisheries stocks and operate under the aegis of this Department are co-operating closely with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and its agencies in rolling out the water framework agenda. I am assured by the fisheries boards that for their part they will make every effort to ensure that under this agenda, sufficient priority and focus will be placed on addressing water quality and the impact on fisheries identified in the EPA reports.
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