Ms Cathy Mannion:

Just to add one thing to what Mr. McGowan said, he is correct on the work that will be carried out next year but it is worth bearing in mind that non-domestic customers pay a standing charge. The higher the standing charge the lower the volume metric charge will be. Part of our work will be examining this on a like-for-like basis. An assumption was made on the level of revenue that will be recovered from non-domestic customers so this was taken off the total allowable revenue for Irish Water and the remainder was recovered from domestic customers. When we examine the issue of non-domestic customers next year we will look at standing charges, volume metric charges and the relationship between the domestic and non-domestic sectors in terms of recovering the total allowable Irish Water revenue.