Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

This amendment is necessary to address situations where the volume of water used by a customer may differ from the volume of water supplied by a water services authority. The volume of water used may be affected by other factors such as leakage or illegal connections which are beyond the point of metering. In the circumstances the word "supplied" reflects more accurately the purpose of metering, which is to measure the volume of water supplied by a water services provider.