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

Mr. John McCarthy:

On page 8 of the presentation, the first bullet point says that policy choices are a matter for Government. In my opening line, I said I wanted to stress that.

I asked: "What does economics tell us about the situation?" I was not trying to advise the Government which employs me-----