Mr. Niall Gleeson:

It has to be remembered we are starting from a base of complete underinvestment for probably 60 to 80 years. Since Uisce Éireann has come on board, we have made huge improvements. Those improvements are acknowledged in the EPA's report. It is critical of our rate of progress but acknowledges we are making progress. One of the biggest impacts for our rate of progress is around planning, especially in the wastewater area because everybody wants wastewater treatment in their town or village but nobody wants it anywhere near their house. We have big challenges in getting those through the planning process, judicial reviews and all that kind of stuff. We are making significant progress, however. We have done workshops with the EPA because we are putting together our plan for revenue control period 4, RC 4, which is what we will propose to the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, over the next year.

We have discussed with the EPA what we intend to do with that plan and the other plans that are in place. There might be areas where we do not have detailed plans, but the EPA has certainly seen significant plans. Mr. Laffey might wish to comment on this, but the areas where we do not have plans are-----