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. Kieran Culhane:

The advice in EUROSTAT's classification decision was to use the cash figure because of the compliance rate. Obviously in our forecasts for 2017 which we produced on a general Government debt basis we adjusted the figure for Irish Water for accruals downwards to take account of the compliance rate. We estimated the figure as we did not know what the compliance rate would be in the years 2017 to 2020. We made an adjustment to our numbers in our budget calculations for the rate of non-compliance.