Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. I will take that as a "Yes". The existing legislation passed by the Dáil - by means of a Government-imposed guillotine - prior to Christmas includes an obligation on Irish Water's representatives to come before this committee once a year. Provision was not made to allow the committee to compel the company's representatives to come before it more often than that. In the interests of the newfound transparency, the willingness to be accountable and so forth, would our guests be willing to come before the committee on more than one occasion each year if they were directed to do so?