Mr. John Tierney:

As I pointed out earlier, a utility took on the management of an €11 billion asset, the customer piece for 1.8 million customers, the operational piece and brought efficiencies that involved approximately 4,300 staff. Let me use the analogy of the gas sector in Ireland. My colleague, Mr. John Dempsey, can speak more eloquently than I on the sector, on where it was 20 years ago or whatever period before Bord Gáis was established and compare it with the standard of the product today. That is why Bord Gáis took on Irish Water. However, Irish Water cannot deal with the problems overnight and we have never said that they can be resolved overnight. One must put the mechanics in place and that means one produces an investment in the system to bring about the improvement.