Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If there are multiple abstractions, they can cumulatively be quite significant. With regard to the technology, smart devices are being put in people's three-bedroom semi-detached homes to measure the water. Some large extractions of water will be legitimate, worthy and valid. Others will be abusive. If we are not measuring it, we cannot determine one from the other. It is important, if we progress this, that we make it a requirement to have smart metering on every abstraction.