Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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On the insertion of "Reform" into the title, while I accept this is reform, it is not the reform I believe we need. This is a huge missed opportunity. I will avail of every opportunity to make that point. The Minister would be surprised if I did not. I do not propose to labour many points because I spoke in detail on this matter on Second Stage.

I presume we will deal with the €600 million being set aside for Irish Water when we come to the amendments under Part 2. However, like Deputy Cowen, I do not understand how this amount was calculated when we do not yet know the detail of the service level agreements. How was this amount calculated? Was it a back of an envelope exercise? Clearly, this amount will met from local property tax receipts, which is not what people had anticipated.