Mr. Sean Laffey:

Ultimately, we cannot say that people are not using our water without our knowledge because our network is 65,000 km long. It is one of the longest in Europe. Per head of population, our network is twice the size of Germany's so we cannot say that people are not tapping in. We know there are places with connections that should be metered that are not metered but we are continuously improving the information we have in our database. Over the past 18 months, we have set up a dedicated system within Uisce Éireann and a dedicated team whose job is to look after metering of domestic and non-domestic customers.