John Cummins (Fine Gael)
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I thank the three bodies for being here this afternoon. It is much appreciated. As all my colleagues have said, our primary goal here is to speed up the delivery of homes. This session was pencilled in a number of months ago.

If I may start with the ESB, one of the topics at that point in time, in February, was media reports of demands for payments in respect of connections for developers. The matter was well covered at the time and, to be honest, it probably did a lot of reputational damage to ESB Networks. I would like to give Mr. Tarrant the opportunity to address it here at the committee at the outset.