Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

That is useful. I have a question for the CER because having come in we would not want to leave him with no questions having been asked. It is about the question of usage. We got a report, which I believe went up on the documents page yesterday, which is beginning to examine the question of excessive usage, which is key from the point of view of the committee. A fundamental starting point of that is getting the average usage figures correct. Is it the case that the figures Mr. McGowan is using, which I understand were the figures given for the water commission report, are based on the Irish water consumption research project follow-up study, which was done in 2014 or 2015? Is that what they are based on or are they based on the metering and the experience?