Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We want the Bill to be poverty-proofed. We believe that water charges will hit those on the lowest incomes the hardest, particularly households with low incomes where there are several people living in the house, such as large families, or people living on a disability allowance where there may be only one or two people living in the house. We firmly believe that it should be poverty-proofed and I have asked about this several times when this came up in the Dáil and at committee meetings over the past year or so. We believe that should be the case.