Mr. John Tierney:

Contractually, all of the people employed have that right in their contract. No average has been established, and there are different averages that will work out across the pay bands in Irish Water. As I pointed out earlier, this is about a performance piece to create the high-performance utility model for which we were set up. We have adopted the existing pay model within the company and that is going to be implemented. It was done in the context of two significant issues: the need to bring about reductions and efficiencies over time by moving away from an incremental-based system - there has been a lot of debate about the value of such systems - and also a pay freeze.