Mr. Jerry Grant:

That was all done by Bord Gáis prior to Irish Water and prior to my time, so I have no knowledge of any discussions that took place around that, other than that Bord Gáis undertook the project and Irish Water, on its establishment, took over the project and was then faced with the contracts.

On new builds, now that we have infrastructure to read the meters, having an extra 20,000, 30,000 or 40,000 meters is no great burden at all, and it makes total sense to me to put them in new builds because very often plumbing defects will be captured very early on. It would be a very useful benefit from having meters as an integral part of new builds.