Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion

7:00 pm

Mr. John Barry:

Yes. What Bord Gáis brought to this was probably 50 people full-time out of the Bord Gáis business to drive the water programme, the establishment of the water utility. They were subject matter experts in various disciplines across the organisation. They do not write code. They do not build hardware. They do not supply hardware. It was always explicitly stated that those things had to be recruited externally. Bord Gáis brought the discipline, the rigour and many years of utility experience to drive the programme to recruit and procure the right skill sets, the right service providers, not consultants - I am choosing my words carefully - to do what we said we would do when we planned it.

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