Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Public Accounts Committee
Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion
7:00 pm
Mr. John Tierney:
I came out and said quite clearly that this is money spent on the creation of the utility for building – I used the analogy that if one came into Leinster House in the morning and had no building systems or processes or people to operate all those it would be a huge task to start. That is what we had to do. It involves managing and delivering efficiencies on the €11 billion worth of assets; managing and operating the staff; delivering the customer billing system, and all of those processes. Mr. Dempsey is outlining our view that we are creating an asset in that. There is a process that must be gone through.