Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. I think the pudding might not taste good but we will see. We all want clean water so that is a red herring of an argument; it is just that we differ on how to deliver it.

In terms of the priority to deliver new council housing and social housing, one obstacle to that is the servicing of land and the provision of the necessary water infrastructure. Will that area be further complicated by all of this, because we now have two entities, if one likes, who will have to co-ordinate. Irish Water’s capital investment budget might limit its capacity to put in water infrastructure.