Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I have developed a Private Members' motion on this issue and am working on legislation regarding it at present. Can we clarify whether the Attorney General will define the economic identity of Irish Water when it is separated from Ervia? This is quite complicated. It is more complicated than I appreciated. When Irish Water was set up, it was intended it would have a very different function from what it has now. It has control over a very large amount of money and we do not have the kind of oversight this committee requires. It is one of the entities that would be before us every year, if it was audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. This has been going on a very long time. Can we clarify the point I raised?