Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

This is a dangerous road to go down. I know we are here to talk about SLAs but I know that local authority workers will not install meters. They just refuse to do it. I ask the witnesses to answer me honestly. Do they want to cut short the SLA because, if it is taken from the local authority employees, local authorities will then have to implement the metering programme that Irish Water wants to deliver rather than something more sensible? I know the meters will not stay in the ground but, while they are in the ground, they will be used to detect what Irish Water or the Minister describe as excessive usage, which is very ambiguous for ordinary people.