Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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The Minister will probably say it is not in the Estimates but on wastewater there is a huge anomaly where residents had a quasi-public sewer at the backs of their houses. The majority of them were built and installed by local authorities. In the memorandum of understanding on the hand-over from local authorities to Uisce Éireann, that seems to have been deleted or neglected or was not handed over. It is no-man's land. There is a lost hardship in every small village and town and perhaps even in the cities. Certainly in the small towns that I represent something needs to be done to address the issue. Local authorities did not hand them over in the memorandum of understanding. They are now not allowed to touch it and Irish Water will not touch it.