Batt O'Keeffe
Ceist:20 Mr. B. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment if the monitoring programme has been expanded to include all public water supplies in view of the fact that only a limited number of water supplies were analysed for biocides and that in County Cork, 20 per cent, that is, one in five water bodies, were unfit for human consumption with levels 15 times the regulatory limit, EU Directive 80/778/EEC for pesticides; and the measures, if any, he has taken to ensure that local authorities carry out their statutary function in this area and routinely check for hazardous, banned substances. [9012/97]