Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not disputing the work or doing anything to denigrate the work that people do in a voluntary capacity in group schemes but the point that I am making is that we are not really comparing like with like. The group water scheme sector has done a huge amount of work in improving the quality and standard of water on their supplies. With regard the information that we have asked for in regard to the average cost of schemes, it is important for the work of the committee to actually link that to the individual schemes and the type of treatment that is on the scheme. Many schemes would have simple disinfection whereas other schemes would have quite detailed dissolved air floatation, DAF, machinery which would mean different costs. It would be useful for the committee if the average costs were actually tied into the type of treatment used in the schemes.