Ms Angela Ryan:

What we are saying is that in two or three years, if we are not making significant inroads into projects, that is when we will have difficulties. So we are trying to continuously keep going with interim projects.

In terms of emergency, it is reaching that point now because there are only so many small projects that one can bring into the system. Again, one looks at the efficacy of those projects on an individual basis. It is not really appropriate for a major infrastructure provider to be operating with zero per cent headroom. I would say that the greater Dublin area is probably the only urban city region in Europe that operates on a daily basis with zero per cent headroom so the situation is utterly critical right now. What we are saying is that as an organisation we are managing that on a daily basis. We have operational teams who react to peaks and instance on the networks and we have our asset management teams who continuously try to identify projects to free up little bits of capacity just to keep us going over the coming years. We are reaching a point with our critical and major infrastructure. We are really reliant on infrastructure that was developed in the 1970s and 1980s that was focused around a population of about 3.5 million but the population has grown to over 5.1 million. So we are squeezing all of that additional demand into services and assets that were never designed for that, thereby causing a lot of difficulty, particularly for our operational teams who must react and work 24-hour long durations during peak events.