Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I will just comment on the single utility. We have a national body that deals nationally with the EPA, so these incidents are very quickly identified and addressed with the EPA and the HSE through our crisis management team. We do this nationally and it works very effectively. We were also able to talk to other plants such as Ballymore Eustace and Vartry and increase their production, so again, the national utility took that role on. We looked at the network and how we could divert water from one network to another when we knew the Leixlip plant was not operating correctly. There is huge value in the national utility and bringing in a single management system with single standards, single measurements of sampling and testing, and a single type of quality system will be hugely beneficial to a national water system.

As I have stated before, the plant is fully operational and provides 20% of the water supply in Dublin. The filter bed upgrade, probably the most important piece of ongoing work, has proved difficult without impacting on production. It has been a problem.

A system of automatic shutdown was implemented in the new plant. Owing to a misunderstanding, our personnel felt they had satisfied the audit by implementing the system of automatic shutdown in the new plant and the secondary plant, which is more complicated and more difficult to prepare. We had placed a purchase order and there was a contractor involved. However, we had not done the work, which I agree is a failing of-----