Ms Angela Ryan:

Within the city centre it is higher. It is in that 30% region. Towards the periphery, where the networks are slightly newer, the rates are in the 20% region. Right now we are looking across our supplies in terms of meter upgrades and district metered areas optimisation to allow us to understand on a very specific level what are the individual leakage rates. The district metered areas are very small sections of the network. Within the greater Dublin area there are 750 district metered areas. We are developing out the calculations to allow us to assess every single one of those areas individually. We will have night lines for those areas where we can see the amount of flow going into those areas at night time when people are not using water, which is a very good indication of leakage. We will then develop out our programmes to target those areas that have high night lines. We are about 50% through with that DMA assessment but our leakage reduction plan will close that out over the next two years.