James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the officials, and people from Irish Water, for being here this morning. First, they would be familiar with the fact we had devastating floods in east Cork in recent days. I acknowledge the superb work that was done by people on the ground with the local authority. As Mr. Doyle will be aware, we have a new county manager in Cork, Ms Valerie O'Sullivan, who took over only a couple of weeks ago, and this was some baptism of fire. It is decent for any politician to recognise it was not an easy situation. I just want to add my voice and thank them for their work. Similarly, there were people working with Irish Water locally. It has been very difficult.

Irish Water has been going through a huge transformation. Mr. Gleeson has almost 4,000 staff, has he not?