Ms Maria O'Dwyer:

Every year we process way more pre-connection enquiries and connection applications and issue way more connection offers than are ever accepted. Last year, we processed pre-connection enquiries associated with 115,000 housing units. We issued connection offers associated with 52,000 units and we facilitated connections to 32,000 units. Other years, I know the pre-connection enquiry numbers were as high as 180,000 units. At all times, we are probably endeavouring to respond to the market, endeavouring to follow and respond to developers where the requests come in and we will endeavour to do that in the future.