Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I, too, have a couple of questions. I welcome the benefits of the proposals, which make sense, although I am concerned about the clarity on the set-up costs. For the legislation, the Department will give us the detail it has at the time. It is unfortunate, politically, that the Department was not involved in the set-up of Irish Water, new entities and the trouble they can cause for unfortunate politicians and administrators. Mr. Gallagher spoke about the transfer of staff at their existing salaries. Will there be any regulatory change to the working conditions, or could any additional changes be made? When Irish Water was set up, a problem was that it was supposed to be a separate entity but it was benchmarked against another organisation for salaries and so on. Will Mr. Gallagher provide some clarity in that regard?