Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services

Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea:

It ends as follows: a member state can invoke an established practice "where this does not compromise the purposes and the achievement of the objectives of this directive". As we do not really interfere in the debate, we let the committee judge whether the objectives of this directive are attained with half of the population of Ireland-----