Mr. Eamon Gallen:

I want to correct something. Of the management team five of the 11 are women including the heads of human resources, asset operations, and customer operations and the acting head of environment regulation. We also have the head of corporate affairs who is cross-functional so we could say six of 12. I apologise for giving the wrong number earlier. I left out somebody who is acting.

The excessive use charge will be subject to a consultation process by the CRU. As the Deputy knows, that is Government policy. We do not come up with policy, we implement it. We believe the big benefit will be conservation rather than charges. As members are probably aware, 7% of people use 30% of the water. We believe the vast majority of this is due to leakage. We will engage with people and give them plenty of notice about their excessive use and do everything we can to repair leaks to save us the cost of treating, chemicals, electricity and pumping, which are extremely expensive. The big benefit we see, for the utility and nationally, is the reduction in wastewater and the increase in conservation. Large households can apply for additional allowances and people with special circumstances or medical needs can apply for exemptions also. We believe a very small number of people will end up paying and our intention is to do everything to make that number as small as possible. We are not interested in the revenue as much as we are in reducing leakage and promoting conservation.