Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services

Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water

12:00 pm

Photo of Thomas PringleThomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent)
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The organisation has saved 70 million to 80 million litres on the district metering programme and it also saved 70 million litres on the first-fix scheme. It had to expend €460 million to allow the first-fix scheme to be rolled out. The cost benefit of the district metering is way ahead of the metering programme in terms of detecting wastewater.