Ms Maria O'Dwyer:

In January, we held a non-statutory consultation in six locations along the water supply project in the eastern and midlands region. Approximately 900 people engaged in that consultation. In the main, I believe it was very positive. I attended a lot of the events myself. There were good discussions in the rooms and it was an opportunity for us to talk about some of the construction challenges and the approaches we are taking to that pipeline project. We are working our way through the feedback we received from the consultation and we are still on track to get our planning application submitted by year-end.