Mr. John Mullins:

We also use photographic evidence in terms of the asset condition. All of that will be done automatically and digitised back to a central engineering centre. That is the way we do our business in Bord Gáis and we expect to do that in the case of Irish Water.

On the digital nature of the network, it is digitised in some areas and not in other areas. We face the carrying out of a major programme of digital mapping of our water system and we will have to do that over a period of time. We estimate it will take at least five years to do that and this will involve 25,000 km of network. We are not sure yet how much of it has been digitised. Our gas system is fully digitised. We want to get to a position where, by using a product called Small World, which we will use with the Maximo system, we will be able to have a full digital view of all the water assets in the system and be able to store maintenance records of each of the major assets such that we will know when inspection cycles should occur in the context of the engineering.