Mr. John McCarthy:

What the board of Ervia has said is that, as part of the process of delivering on the business plan for Irish Water which, in particular, aims to achieve operational efficiencies worth €1.1 billion, it would prefer to get to a point where the service level agreements are brought to a conclusion earlier than 2025. There is now a process of engagement with the local authorities, unions and Irish Water. The Minister has asked the parties to look at that and come back by Easter. I am basing this on memory. Equally, the Minister has made it clear this is a process through which agreement is to be reached rather than through which something is to be enforced.