Mr. Jerry Grant:

That is with the regulator at the moment. I am not pre-judging what the regulator will do with that. We will have a single set of charges across the country which will be an enormous help. Our hope and expectation is that those charges will be in place before the end of this year. It will greatly improve and simplify the process of even issuing connections. At the moment, we have to calculate them using square metres, areas and all kinds of things which are very complex. The harmonisation of commercial charges is ongoing but it is not as advanced. It is very complicated, as members can imagine, and it will take quite a few years to bring them all to harmonisation because some of the differences are stark. Charges in the Deputy's own county are double those of the one next door. It is untenable for that to continue but the discussions about that process are happening this year and it will be next year before there is a final determination. That will happen.

On development, every town is different. Blessington is an area on which I am very focused at the moment to try to get some extra capacity in. We can deal with a very strong housing growth area. We are in very good shape in some places and there is more work to be done in some places. We are very conscious of the need to keep ahead of demand and not impede the implementation of housing development.