Ms Cathy Mannion:

Of course one does. Somebody mentioned that people might want to call their own plumbers to do the work. Of course they can do so; it is their choice what they want to do. When we talked about additional charges it was more to do with the things that Irish Water would be asked to do, such as checking the pressure. Earlier I gave the example of changing the location of a meter. I have no idea why somebody might want to do so, but I mentioned it just in case. I meant that sort of additional charge. There is no requirement for a customer to use Irish Water. Where normally a customer would have used somebody else, he or she can continue to do so.