Ms Jennifer Banim:

As Mr. Dalton has already said and as EUROSTAT acknowledged, it was an extremely difficult classification decision. We had a process for it and we went through it. We can send it on because all the documentation and all our thinking are publicly available on the Internet. Some of the issues that were borderline or on-balance issues on Irish Water are still being thrashed out at the different technical groups in EUROSTAT. There are a number of states that agree with our interpretation; EUROSTAT has its interpretation and other member states have different interpretations again. What I would say is that some of the fundamentals that classification decision raised still rumble on. I would still say that on the process, on our interpretation of the process, what we did we did absolutely by the book and by the rules. That is the way we have to do it.