Mr. Garrett Blaney:

There was a question on benchmarks. Our benchmarking process for Irish Water, as for ESB and Bord Gáis, does not involve our benchmarking these companies against each other but, rather, against best international practice. Typically, this would involve a comparison with the Scottish water company or another UK company. As Ms Mannion indicated earlier, the findings were not particularly favourable in terms of staff and labour costs, with the differential being a factor of two and a half.