Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services
10:00 am
Ms Maria Graham:
As the Secretary General said, the first step in this is that the Energy Regulator looks over the period 2015 and 2016 and asks what is the allowed revenue for Irish Water, what should the costs be and what can they ask of customers. One of the customers is Government, which is buying water on behalf of the domestic sector. That is against the production costs of Irish Water, which is a reflection of its operational costs and also the capital programme. The subvention in the year reflects the fact that the capital programme is increasing over time.
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