Ms Geraldine Tallon:

In terms of areas where we would have a sense that this may be available within the local government system, we would always have raised that question: is this something that can be sourced through secondment or through working arrangements of one kind or another with in the local government system? If that was not the case, well then we accepted that Bord Gáis Éireann had been determined by Government as the body with specialist expertise in the operation of a commercial utility and they were in a position to determine what, if you like, the appropriate range of work involved in the establishment of Irish Water, as a lean and efficient commercial utility, would be. My colleague, Maria Graham, was very involved in-----