IWO ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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IWO ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Delivering Value for Money IS BUSINESS
GETTING VALUE FOR MONEY? Brian Ambrose
Chairman CBI Northern Ireland
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IS BUSINESS GETTING VALUE FOR MONEY?

• The Challenge of Change
• Issues being addressed business
• perspective
• Are we getting value for money?
• Brian Ambrose Chairman CBI Northern Ireland

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THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE

• Recognising the legacy
• Understanding the complexity
• Economic imperative
• Brian Ambrose Chairman CBI Northern Ireland

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RECOGNISING THE LEGACY

• Under investment in infrastructure
• Financially constrained
• Public perception already paid for?
• Inherited inefficiencies
• Over manned
• Customer Focused?

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THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE

• Recognising the legacy
• UNDERSTANDING THE
• COMPLEXITY
• Economic imperative

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THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE

• Recognising the legacy
• Understanding the complexity
• ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE

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IS BUSINESS GETTING VALUE FOR MONEY?

• The Challenge of Change
• ISSUES BEING ADDRESSED
• A BUSINESS PERSEPCTIVE
• Are we getting value for money?

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ISSUES BEING ADDRESSED BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE

• Transparency and Predictability in charging
• Additional 20m bill p.a. for businesses
• Avoid cross subsidisation
• 3 year outlook
• Phased introduction
• Metering and Billing
• Leakage Targets

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ISSUES BEING ADDRESSED BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE

• Liability and Key Risks
• Failure to achieve efficiency budget
• Non payment campaign
• Redundancy Costs and early retirement
• costs post 2010?
• Investment required to facilitate growth
• EU compliance

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IS BUSINESS GETTING VALUE FOR MONEY?

• The Challenge of Change
• Issues being addressed a business
• perspective
• ARE WE GETTING VALUE FOR
• MONEY?

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ARE WE GETTING VALUE FOR MONEY?

• Business Competitiveness The cost of doing
  business
• in Northern Ireland
• Water costs to business
• among the highest in UK
• leaves sectors like Agri-food vulnerable
• Support the need for independent regulator
• Business should not bear burden for-
• Non payment of domestic charges
• Bad Debt

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ARE WE GETTING VALUE FOR MONEY?

• CBI consider it reasonable for all
• customers to pay for the services
• they use, so long as they are
• delivered efficiently
• We recognise achievements to date

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IS BUSINESS STILL GETTING VALUE FOR MONEY?
Thank you Brian Ambrose Chairman CBI
Northern Ireland