Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Reference was made to full scrutiny. Will Irish Water report to the relevant Minister in the same way that the HSE reports to the Minister for Health? It will be a separate company. Deputy Cowen made some points about the need for full information in advance to calculate what is required. Only then can we see how the numbers pan out in terms of the number of households and what is possible. In terms of the information available, once the body is set up it will not be as directly responsible to us and it will not have to provide the same degree of information. That becomes an issue in its own right. Will the Minister of State describe how he envisages this will play out?