Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion

7:10 pm

Mr. John Tierney:

Very simply, it is about having a high-performance utility model for the base rate, and potential earnings are based on that high performance. It will be seen that Irish Water is the lowest-cost utility model with regard to the staff it will employ relative to similar grades in any other utility. The most important point is that this will be the case-----