Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I suppose that is fair. At least I now know that Senator Landy is on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht.

I welcome the Minister of State. I will cut to the chase. In the perception of the public the establishment of Irish Water has been a mess and the Minister of State needs to fix it. We need to recognise that mistakes have been made. I will not re-hash the debate we have had. As we are talking about previous Governments and where they stood, the Labour Party, in its manifesto in 2011, was trenchantly opposed to water charges.