Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 285: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the number of times in 2006 samples were taken by fisheries and EPA inspectors of water courses down stream of effluent treatment discharge points from waste water treatment plants in County Wexford; the number of samples that were at an acceptable standard for discharge; the recommendations that were made; the parameters to which analysis is carried out and the results that were obtained on analysis for each parameter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13587/07]

John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The primary responsibility of the Regional Fisheries Boards is the conservation, protection, management and development of the inland fisheries resource. I am advised by the Eastern Regional Board that they do not have a monitoring role in respect of waste water treatment plants other than sampling on occasions where a serious discharge incident is reported, with a view to prosecution. No such effluent discharge was brought to the attention of the Eastern Regional Fisheries Board in 2006.

The EPA operates under the aegis of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government.