Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North-West, Fianna Fail)

The witnesses spoke about local authority staff transferring over. Actually, I will ask two questions and see how much the witnesses get to answer. On transfers over, Uisce Éireann has taken the income away from the local authorities in terms of commercial charges - Uisce Éireann now receives it rather than them. Uisce Éireann might take the staff member over but it leaves the pension responsibility with the local authorities. The local authorities might have had 20 or 30 years of those people being employed with them and they have the pension responsibility for those people, but Uisce Éireann has taken the income from the local authority. How is that addressed in the overall service-level agreements?