Mr. John McCarthy:

This is a new endeavour. It is a massive endeavour in terms of billing 1.5 million households. It is legitimate to allow the first billing cycle be completed, let the credit period associated with it pass, and let Irish Water do some evaluation to establish what it is being told from this, how in line or otherwise it is with its expectations and, from a governance point of view, for it to consider that with its board, in the first instance, and then come to the Department.