John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have a question. If you set out in 2014 to file the different allowances that are being granted and passed on by Irish Water, how did you factor into that figure the difference between what the Government set out to do and where it actually arrived because it changed the goalposts in the process? Is there not a greater buy-out now of all of those allowances that must be granted by Irish Water? The business model for Irish Water has changed substantially from a business model that was to collect a greater amount of water charges based on metering to a lesser amount based on a set amount. How do you establish these figures? Perhaps you would factor into that the question raised by Deputy Fleming and give us an overall response.