Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

I have one question for Mr. Grant. I take the point that the policy decision to install domestic metering was taken prior to the establishment of Irish Water. Irish Water would have operated or rolled out the tendering process. At any stage prior to that process starting, during it, or when it concluded, did Irish Water stand back and ask if that cost was going to be cost-effective and was it a valid way of proceeding? If so, did Irish Water make any views available to the Government of the day on the whole domestic metering process? Would Irish Water have indicated to the Government that this metering process was not a valid or cost-effective process?