I will start with Senator Keith Swanick's issue and then return to the previous-----

Describe the Senator.

I am sorry - Senator Michael McDowell. Pardon me. I dare say it was a senior moment.

Senator Michael McDowell raised an interesting point about aquifers. I would like to see the report and consider its accuracy. We have had a lot of discussion about the matter in north County Dublin where there is a large aquifer, but the information I had at the time was that it certainly would not be sufficient on its own to meet requirements. Nonetheless, the Senator's point is well made.

I endorse and support Senator Keith Swanick's request for a motion. This is an area in which I have been very interested for quite some time. I raised it with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, when I was Minister for Health and subsequently again, if memory serves, as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. I have written to the Minister more recently to find out what is the up-to-date position. In fairness to the Minister, at the time the moneys concerned were quite small and he certainly intimated to me that there would be an orderly wind down of investments in the tobacco industry. I believe it is questionable to have investments, as such, with an industry that has caused so much misery, hardship, hurt, harm and death right across the globe.