Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One must take responsibility when something happens. There must be clarification on everything and responsibility. There are issues. The witnesses said it was not possible to have local offices everywhere. Every time Irish Water spoke today, it was all about local authorities. Local authorities are the backbone of our society. The next thing that will happen is that they will take over the ESB. We are removing so many functions from local authorities which do a good job once they have been given the proper funding. Proper funding is what it is about. I hope that whatever happens, Carlow will get its fair share. We have massive issues with sewerage. Irish Water should keep local offices. It would be detrimental not to. That is what has happened to everything that is a single utility. They work from Dublin or the bigger cities and local character goes. The information goes and it does not work.