Ms Sheenagh Rooney:

Briefly, we are happy to provide information on how such a charge would be determined but I want to point out one relevant piece of information on cost. Irish Water put a submission to us in terms of the money it needed for 2017-2018. That is what we recently made a determination on. In that, there is only €2 million available that Irish Water has sought with regard to meters. One of the key points we were making is that if more money was to be made available to roll out further phases of metering, particularly in the time period we have just reviewed, that money would either have to come from somewhere else or something else that was a priority would no longer be able to be done. There is only €2 million there at present.