Ms Geraldine Tallon:

Ministers answer as far as possible in terms of issues within their competence and responsibility. Where funding was concerned from an Irish Water point of view, if the funding was not travelling through the Voted expenditure which the Minister was responsible for we would recommend to our Ministers that the matter is the responsibility of Irish Water, previously of Bord Gáis. We would like to see a situation, and we intend to engage with Irish Water on this, where there could be a facility within the Irish Water structure for appropriate engagement with parliamentary representatives.