Ms Margaret Attridge:

With regard to the number, we know from the returns to the Department that 13 local authorities listed a total of 518 DPIs. This is why we reckon the number in total is closer to 1,000. A good number of those 518 and the ones that have not been listed yet had water services operated by the local authority previously. If the local authority operated them when services transferred to Uisce Éireann, then we continue to operate them as the local authority did previously.