Mr. Paul McGowan:

Yes. I am sorry, Deputy, but I was working my way back to this matter. The charges that we have set include the cost of the service level agreements, SLAs, that are in place between Irish Water and the local authorities and the cost those SLAs impose on Irish Water. Nevertheless, we have set Irish Water a challenging but realistic target in terms of the savings that it has to achieve, over the next two years, right across its cost base.

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