Mr. Ted O'Reilly:

In the scenario of a developer looking to connect to the network, in effect, that developer would come through the new connection process. The developer makes a pre-connection inquiry to Uisce Éireann. All the information and proposals are provided in terms of the scale of the development and its nature. Uisce Éireann assesses that from a technical perspective in respect of whether we have the capacity in the network locally and the capacity in the receiving treatment plant to treat the new load that would arise. We would then give an indication of the cost involved. This information would go back to the proposer, the developer in this case, and the developer would assess this and determine whether it was viable to continue with the project.