Mr. Luke Varley:

We are aware and have been aware over the years that there are deficiencies in the infrastructure in the sense that it is coming to the end of its useful life. It was built in the boom years of the 1990s and early 2000s. It varies from situation to situation and from estate to estate. We are aware that infrastructure is well run in some area while, in others, it is not. We are also aware that the infrastructure is not run at all in other areas because the developer went bust in the late 2000s. Enforcement falls to the local authority, which is the regulatory authority under the planning Acts and the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts, but we know there are challenges there.

That is the situation as we know it.