Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like a bit more time to expand on some of these questions. Is it true to say that prior to the introduction of the rural water programme the management of group water schemes was quite haphazard and varied significantly from scheme to scheme? Some schemes had paid staff to actively manage the consumption of the scheme. Quite a lot of schemes had none. The figures in regard to consumption and things like that are quite skewed because the first active look at the consumption figures on schemes was in conjunction with the major capital investment under the rural water programme.