Ms Angela Ryan:

With regard to the multi-annual funding, when the programme for Government was launched, Uisce Éireann reviewed those figures, including the 300,000 houses required by 2030. We looked at what was within our strategic funding plan that had been improved by the Minister and we did a gap analysis on what would be required to bring it to the next level. Uisce Éireann proactively set up an accelerated growth programme within our organisation. That has looked at all the core growth areas that are included within the national planning framework, regional assemblies and the local authority county development plans. We then overlaid that with information from our connection and developer services team so we have a good impression of where that growth will happen. We then did a gap analysis of what would be missing within those growth areas, that is, what we would need to invest in to bring it up to between 50,000 and 60,000 houses a year. Now we have a programme of work that has fallen out of that. We have been working on that in the background. We have developed that into a package of work. It has been submitted through the national development plan review, and when the outcome of that is announced we will go through the normal processes with our regulator, the CRU, on that.