Ms Maria Graham:

The choice is between a constitutional protection and legislation. We have sought in all of the legislation to make that as watertight, to use that phrase, as possible in terms of prohibiting the privatisation of Irish Water. Any documents in place, including as Mr. Ó Tuathail has mentioned, the memorandum and articles of association, are subsidiary documents to the Acts of the Oireachtas which have a primary role at the moment. There is nothing in the water framework directive from a European perspective, for example, that would impact on that in terms of ownership either.