Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is very difficult to prove a negative. All I can tell the Deputy is that there is no intention to privatise Irish Water. I do not believe an bord imithe would be appropriate for Ervia. He asked why we did not give it an Irish name and asked if we brought in consultants to come up with the name. We did not; it came from the staff and board of Bord Gáis Éireann. It is intended to be a combination of Irish and Latin - "Éire" and "via". While everybody is entitled to an opinion about it, that is the name that has been selected.

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