Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:

The set-up costs are something we can come back to. As I mentioned, the steering group overseeing separation looks at this issue at all our meetings. The highest costs relate to ICT issues. There is one single ICT network in the Ervia group. We are dividing that into two separate networks. There are legal costs because the company has a significant legal journey to go on. For example, Ervia procured many contracts for a range of services on behalf of both companies. Those contracts need to be amended and so on. A significant amount of work is involved in doing all that. Those are the kind of areas where costs arise. I have no problem giving the Deputy a breakdown of the figures, except that those figures are ones at a point in time as we move through the process. We will come back to the committee on that.

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