928 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the widespread and sustained opposition by residents organisations and business interests and others who reside in the River Shannon catchment to any proposal by Dublin local authorities to abstract water from Lough Ree or other lakes on the River Shannon; if his attention has further been drawn to a report entitled Environmental and Sustainability assessment of the proposal by Dublin City Council to abstract water form the River Shannon catchment, which contains observations and recommendations and issues, showing inter alia , that international experience shows that large-scale abstraction of water from river systems worldwide has generally been followed by ecologically and socially destructive and irreversible consequences; if, in this context, he will take steps to ensure that his proposed project of abstraction from the Shannon by Dublin local authorities is rejected outright; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27559/08]

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928 Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the widespread and sustained opposition by residents organisations and business interests and others who reside in the River Shannon catchment to any proposal by Dublin local authorities to abstract water from Lough Ree or other lakes on the River Shannon; if his attention has further been drawn to a report entitled Environmental and Sustainability assessment of the proposal by Dublin City Council to abstract water form the River Shannon catchment, which contains observations and recommendations and issues, showing inter alia , that international experience shows that large-scale abstraction of water from river systems worldwide has generally been followed by ecologically and socially destructive and irreversible consequences; if, in this context, he will take steps to ensure that his proposed project of abstraction from the Shannon by Dublin local authorities is rejected outright; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27559/08]

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