Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of the organisations that made submissions to the public consultation on the general scheme of the water environment (abstractions) Bill in September and October 2018. [31930/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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In order to comply with Ireland’s obligations under the Water Framework Directive, and as signalled in the River Basin Management Plan published in April 2018, the Government recently approved a General Scheme of a Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill, which will introduce risk-based controls over the abstraction of water. 

A six-week public consultation on a draft General Scheme of the Bill was held in late 2018.  A total of 28 submissions were received, including one from an individual.  The 27 organisations who made submissions are listed in the table below. 

These submissions informed the development of a revised General Scheme of the Bill, which was aproved by Government on 29 September 2020 and is now available on my Department's website at https://www.housing.gov.ie/water/water-quality/general-scheme-water-environment-abstractions-bill-2020. 

Given that the General Scheme has now been approved, it is my intention to make the submissions received available on my Department's website in the coming days.