Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 May 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
European Semester - National Reform Programme: Discussion
2:00 pm
Frank O'Rourke (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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This is opportunistic negative politics operating in a vacuum which I thought no longer existed. Deputy Brophy feels this is necessary, although he has spent many days in committee hearings discussing Irish Water, an entity that Fine Gael set up at a time the country was on its knees and cost the country hundreds of millions of euro. It presided over 20% pay increases for staff on an annual basis when everybody else was struggling to get social welfare payments.