Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank our guests for being here today. I have a number of questions for Irish Water, following on from our engagement with the EPA and the HSE earlier. There are serious implications from the court case that is being taken against us, and possible future court cases that will be taken, because of our failure to meet the targets that have been set out.

It was mentioned in the introduction that Irish Water has a budget of €1.5 billion for this year. If we are looking at having court rulings against us in Europe, is a budget needed that could get us where we need to get to meet the targets we have signed up for?