While the vast majority of the recommendations fall to be implemented by local authorities, it is fair to say — as the Deputy has implied — that the remit also falls on the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry in the sampling of soil and slurry storage facilities, on Bord na Móna in relation to peat silting and on the Environmental Protection Agency in relation to the hydrometric network. Co-ordination between all of those authorities will be essential to the successful implementation of a necessary but quite expensive scheme of remedial action which will entail very considerable resources.
I am determined to commit the maximum resources possible to the operational programme for environmental services in the areas of responsibility which fall to local authorities. We must also continue to have discussions in relation to some of the phosphate problems, particularly with the detergent producers and other groups who can help to ensure that the waste pipeline creating this problem is cut off. It is one thing to try to have the maximum resources possible to deal with an existing problem but the necessity to cut off the avenues which are continuing to create these waste problems must also be attacked. I assure Deputy Lowry that all the necessary resources, as far as is practicable and possible, will be provided. I am sure he has seen evidence of that in Ballina and in the pump out facilities at Mountshannon, Tullamore, Portumna, Terryglass and other centres around the Shannon where we have not only to deal with the Lough Derg problem but with those up river.