Mr. John Barry:

I suggest that without the involvement of Bord Gáis the whole approach would have cost tens of millions of euro more because of the expertise we had brought to it. We brought more than systems. The policies being followed in terms of corporate governance, risk management and performance management were all cut and pasted from Bord Gáis into Irish Water. We brought a lot of valuable information, but we also brought the policies and procedures embedded in the Bord Gáis organisation and transferred them to Irish Water.