Ms Cathy Mannion:

The Deputy asked why is it 50:50 for sewage and water in. We chose 50:50 due to a lack of information. We did not know, and still do not know, the historic cost of sewage compared with water in. For now, we are going with 50:50 but we will gather information, with Irish Water, over the next number of years and, to the extent that we must, will move away from 50:50 to say 60:40 or whatever the percentage happens to be. We will do that but when we do that we will have to look at the impact on tariffs.