Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will outline what we are going to do. We are going to write to Irish Water directly because, even though it is ostensibly a commercial semi-State organisation, it is substantially funded by the taxpayer through the Vote of the relevant Department and through motor taxation receipts. Since it is substantially publicly funded, we have an interest in it. Therefore, we will write directly to Irish Water.