John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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We will send the Secretary General the Official Report of the meeting and ask for an immediate response from him on that matter.

On No. No. 7, in that correspondence we asked for the unit cost of producing the litre of water. In spite of the fact that it took almost half an A4 page to define no answer was given. I thought that was a simple enough question to determine the cost. As far as I can see there is nothing here but a lot of hot air. I will ask again specifically for that cost. It had nothing to do with the water lost. We can calculate that afterwards. We have not got the production costs. I will remind the Secretary General of the question asked and the fact that it was not answered in spite of the waffle in that reply. The other issue was the transfer of assets from the local authority. It is listed here in terms of the book value. I am bringing that to the attention of members. We can consider it again in the context of the replies to the two questions.

No. 3A.4 correspondence, dated 9 March 2015, from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform re minute from Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform re composite reports arising from examination of (1) land sway arrangement; (2) State Pathology Building Project; (3) appointment of the Director of the National Gallery of Ireland and (4) Waterford Institute of Technology, to be noted and published.