Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I accept that the company is making the assumptions to which I refer but its letter states:

There should however be an exit/separation strategy in the event that the Water utility needed to be in a stand alone position at some time in the future. A key consideration for this approach is the method of providing funding during the start up phase and the impact of the eventual sale.

Why would the company presume that the water utility would eventually be sold if it was responding to a position paper? I did not find anything in the paper that would lead it to that conclusion. I tabled the question to find out whether there was an underlying assumption in this regard and whether a dialogue had been entered into on the Government's long-term intentions for the ownership of the new entity.

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