Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will give it time to bed down to see if it proves more successful than was in place heretofore.

I refer to the water service transition office. Did the funding which was spent on the office come from the €185 million in set up costs for Irish Water or was it a departmental spend based on the figure the Minister gave us in October 2012 in the Vote for the Department?

He said the set up cost would be €10 million, but that turned out to be €16 million.