Mr. Fintan Towey:

There were quite a few questions in there. A lot of the issues Deputy has raised are ones that are within the remit of Irish Water in terms of how it disposes of the total amount of funding that is available to it. The Deputy set out figures around the proportion of households served by Irish Water of 85% with 6% on group schemes and 10% using private wells. That is obviously for drinking water provision. For wastewater, there is a small but very limited number of group schemes providing wastewater services. It is very small, even tiny, in terms of the overall households in the country. About 70% of households are served by public wastewater facilities. The other 30% are served by domestic wastewater treatment facilities - septic tanks, essentially. The breakdown of how funding is applied by Irish Water between the provision of drinking water services versus wastewater services is not something I can give the Deputy any information on. That is a question for Uisce Éireann. In-----