Ms Yvonne Harris:

Historically, we treated all applications the same, as such. When looking at the efficiency of our process last year, we built a new process for one-off domestic housing, so the one-offs fly through the system. That is positive for personal homeowners building their own home. That leaves us with the development community and big initiatives like the SDZs. We have our senior engineers assigned to the SDZs and over the year we ramped up our resources to meet demand from industry on the development community. Again, we are very much about keeping up with demand and driving efficiencies where we can. On some of the efficiencies, there is the self-lay initiative we talked about. We are looking at initiatives like that so we can support developers doing as much as they can on site, which takes pressure off Uisce Éireann then, but we ensure we maintain our standards with them. We are always looking for efficiencies.

I would like to comment on the housing estates not connected. I am not sure if we have much time to do it.