Ms Maria Graham:

No. We undertook a water services investment programme in 2009, in which we asked all local authorities to review all of their plans for capital investment.

Given the economic environment we were in we wanted to ensure that the programme included only projects that represented value for money. We did an assessment and engaged with the EPA from an environmental compliance perspective. We engaged with Forfás in terms of capacity issues and did a number of valuations. Bringing that to bear, we got a project list that totalled €6.2 billion.