Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if Ministers and Deputies who sit on the Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services are paid extra for this; if so, the amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38532/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Expert Commission was made up of national and international experts whose experience covered areas such as environmental matters, law, economics, the customer perspective, the water sector and the regulatory system. The members of the Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services were:

- Mr Kevin Duffy, former Chairman of the Labour Court;

- Dr Xavier Leflaive of the Environmental Directorate of the OECD;

- Mr Peter Peacock, Chair of the Customer Forum for Water Scotland and former Scottish Minister;

- Mr Bill Emery, Chair of the Northern Ireland Utility Regulator;

- Mr Brendan O’Mahony, Chair of the National Federation of Group Water Schemes;

- Ms Sarah Hendry, academic lawyer specialising in water and environmental law, University of Dundee, Scotland;

- Dr. Andrew Kelly, founder and executive Director of EnvEcon; and

- Ms Gritta Nottelman, strategy consultant for Waternet, the only water company in the Netherlands that is dedicated to the entire water cycle.

There were no Ministers or TDs on the Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services.