Mr. Niall Gleeson:

It started lower but will increase. It is an incredibly significant expense. There is a theory out there that Irish Water just wants to build new plants and does not care about leaks but we will put almost the equivalent investment into fixing leaks as new plants.

On supplies, I am aware of a few individual houses that are waiting for connections but I am not aware of any estates at present. Typically, when we drill into those issues a lot of it is due to late applications by developers or an infrastructure issue because of the direction of a pipe, a wastewater pipe more predominantly, where we thought we could run it but something else was in the way and more remedial work was needed. We investigate all of those issues and try to resolve them as quickly as possible. We do not sit on our hands regarding them.