On the same issue, there has been a lot of emphasis this year on the requirement of agriculture to improve its impact on our water quality. I agree that agriculture has a role to play and needs to improve the impact it is having. I fear that after the derogation has ended, we will come back in five years and water quality in Ireland will not have improved enough unless the other actors also improve their game. I have spoken to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine about forestry with the usual impact I have when I speak to him about something.

Deputy Mattie McGrath mentioned wastewater treatment plants. Half a billion litres of raw sewage are being pumped into our waterways every year. That is happening every day. It does not even include wastewater overflows that happen when there is a storm event that flushes the whole system into the waterways, as we saw happen to the unfortunate people of Midleton. The issue is not in any way confined to Midleton and it also happens in other areas.

I thank the Deputy. Time is up.

The report never mentioned unsewered areas, such as Spanish Point and Miltown Malbay-----

I thank the Deputy. Time is up.

-----which is the area where Uisce Éireann pleaded guilty to five of 21 charges. The EPA only mentions the worst cases. It does not mention the other cases.

Please, the time is up.

What is the Government going to do? It talks about its environmental credentials.

Please, the time is up.

Yes, a Cheann Comhairle.

The Deputy has just one minute, the same as everyone else.

I know, a Cheann Comhairle. The Ceann Comhairle would also acknowledge that cycle lanes make for better photo opportunities than sewage treatment plants. What is the Government going to do about this?

The bottom line is that the EPA is acknowledging that an awful lot more needs to be done. It is acknowledging that.

It is not.

It deals with that in the report.

It does not mention unsewered communities at all.

Will the Deputy listen?

It does not mention them at all.

I am trying to answer the Deputy's question.

The Tánaiste is trying to avoid answering it. I am sorry. Let us hear what the Tánaiste has to say.

Some 26 towns and villages discharge raw sewage into our seas and rivers every day because they are not connected to wastewater treatment plants.

There are 226.

We need more wastewater treatment plants but we are making progress. Duncannon, Arthurstown and Ballyhack in County Wexford were done in 2022. Inchigeelagh, County Cork, Clarecastle, County Clare, and Kilcar, County Donegal, were done in 2023. A €500 million upgrade of the Ringsend treatment plant is under way. That will increase treatment capacity and bring it up to EU standards. That is due to be completed in 2025.

I thank the Tánaiste.

This is a work in progress. We know there is still raw sewage going into the water and that is terrible. No one is saying otherwise. We have to get delivery and get things moving fast.

There was no mention of unsewered settlements.