Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I propose to answer Questions Nos. 90 and 455 together.

I have no difficulty with providing any information and if there are documents such as a foundation document, I will make them available to the Deputy. The document to which I assume she is referring is the project initiation document - the starting process in the early days in the Department back in 2012 - which was compiled by Bord Gáis Energy and related to all of the issues that needed to be examined in the setting up of Irish Water. If this project initiation document is the document to which the Deputy refers, I will be glad to make it available to her and all Deputies and place it in the Oireachtas Library.

It deals with the assumptions underlying the programme and the objectives, scope, plan and structure for the programme. It outlines a detailed view of the blueprint of the organisation and the critical path for delivery, including tasks associated with the establishment of the company, the appropriate organisational structure, the functional and business capability and a detailed analysis of what is required from a financial, legal, regulatory, customer and people perspective to achieve establishment in the required timeframe. All of these issues were referred to in detail by the Irish Water executive when it appeared before the committee.

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