Ms Margaret Attridge:

We have identified seven key areas for extensive flushing in Cork city and, hopefully, these will be completed by the middle of November this year. It is early days, but we are seeing a positive trend in the areas we have gone into. If this trend continues, the flushing programme should make a huge difference in the worst-impacted areas in Cork city. We also have our best scientists out in the new treatment plant looking at it and the water chemistry to see if it is impacting the old network in the city. We are making minor adjustments and this does require some minor investment. We are currently going through the procurement process and installation of those minor adjustments to condition the water should, hopefully, be completed by the end of the year. This is our timeline to resolve, hopefully, the worst of the water quality issues in Cork city, albeit it is still a very old network and when we do have breakages or any problems like this in it, we will have periodic discolouration issues. There was always a baseline of ten to 20 calls per week being received by Cork City Council previously. We need to get back to those numbers, and we are getting there.