Mr. Niall Gleeson:

We have been aware of the challenge in Cork city for the last 18 months or so. It is a considerable problem. I will ask Ms Attridge to come in with some of the details regarding what we are doing about it. It is, though, getting full attention from the organisation. We have been trying to fix the problem for a long time. The water is not constantly dirty. The problem comes and goes. We have a huge flushing exercise going on now. We did bring in a new water treatment plant. It is not privatised. We used contractors to build the plant and they are going to run it for a couple of years until we take it over. This plant will always be in Uisce Éireann's ownership. It is running as was designed. This has, potentially, caused an issue in respect of interaction with the pipes, but this has nothing to do with private contractors. We are working with the local authority-----