Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER

3:20 pm

Ms Cathy Mannion:

What we will do is use our expertise in the regulation of networks. We are competent in that area and we know well how to do that. To the extent that we need specific and detailed experience in respect of water, what we will do, like most efficient organisations, is hire in that expertise as we require it. If we had that resource in-house full-time it would be far more expensive than taking it on as we need it, which is usually for the five-year reviews.