Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services
Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance
1:30 pm
Ms Maria Graham:
On the Deputy's first point, he is correct that regarding the water conservation grant, which is not being paid in 2017, the €100 million has been netted off in the overall finances. The year we paid the water conservation grant, we had €100 million for it and then we had funding going to Irish Water. Within Irish Water, operational expenditure reflects billing costs. Again, I understand there would be a saving of about €25 million in this regard. Those are the figures.