Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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At this point I am seriously considering making a complaint to the European Commission on the issue of subsidiarity in the context of us signing up to the European Charter of Local Self-Government. I have had it with the way people are being treated with respect to the LPT.

I have some quick queries on Irish Water and the controls. We were all told when it was established that it was going to be great for efficiency. I looked at a particular project in my constituency. It ran over by a year and the local authority had to take away the road opening licence because of the condition the road was being kept in. Irish Water does the contract with the contractor and the local authority does not have control over that. If that project is replicated, then I fail to see where the value for money is. What controls has Irish Water on those contracts, and what body pays when there is an overrun? Is it built into the kind of contracts being issued?