Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance)
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To follow up on that, there is a suggestion that we will have to introduce excessive usage charges to stop people wasting water. However, it is currently illegal for people to allow water to be wasted or to fail to prevent it from being wasted under the Water Services Act 2007. In fact, councils use that legislation to deal with those who blatantly have a leak on their property but have failed to do anything about it despite being repeatedly informed of it.