Ms Angela Ryan:

The first focus in that timeline needs to be understanding where the areas of growth are and where the needs are. We publish water and wastewater capacity registers on an annual basis. We understand the areas where there are difficulties with new connections to wastewater now but we need to twin that up with the applications that will arrive in the future in order to enable prioritisation into particular areas. We will then see if we can accelerate those areas in the normal way. In some cases, we will not be able to facilitate that. In that space, it is about ensuring we have the correct processes and checks in place to ensure the same thing does not happen again.

As Mr. Gleeson was saying, we may be taking in charge between 500 and 900 items of developer-provided infrastructure that were developed during the Celtic tiger period. All of them are at various stages of disrepair. It is a significant challenge for us as an organisation, not just in terms of bringing them up to standard but also operating those small developments when they come across. We have to have the appropriate procedures in place to enable that first.