Ms Maria Graham:

I thank the Deputy. There is an appendix at the back of the note which we gave to members, which we were asked to prepare by the committee, which sets out costs on a year-by-year basis. If we look from 2017 onwards the total cost of water services rises from €1.4 billion to €1.665 billion. That includes the non-domestic sector. If one takes something between €250 million and €300 million off that as non-domestic sector, then that is the total for the domestic sector. That does not take into account what the views of this committee will be and how it might move in terms of revenue from excessive usage, which would reduce that further. Effectively, that is increasing because the investment programme for Irish Water is increasing, but in 2017 those baseline costs are in the Government expenditure.