Mr. John Barry:

As part of the water services investment programme last year, the Department put a value aside of the order of €6 million to €7 million for developing that project. The Dublin City Council staff who were working full time on that project are now working directly with Irish Water. Even though it is very early stages of our involvement, we have looked at it closely and a consulting engineer has been appointed to bring that project up to the planning stage. We have a very good track record in building pipelines and large infrastructure and we estimate that the very best that can be done will take around seven years. We hope to go to planning in about three years, then we can allow for a 12 month or 18 month planning process and the rest is construction.