Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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I agree. I am part of group water scheme myself. I am in the Drum-Binghamstown group water scheme. I want to take this opportunity to commend all of the volunteers in the group water schemes in Mayo and throughout the country. I will speak again to Irish Water, as I have spoken to it before, about the write-off of the debts on some of these schemes. We cannot expect volunteers to shoulder the responsibility of providing such an essential service as water to our rural communities. Areas in the east and urban areas would not put up with it. We have to find a better way. We have to cut down the bureaucracy. I hope that this will be a marker on where we are at and that we will see progress. I thank the Cathaoirleach and the committee members for accepting this petition from Kiltimagh and Cleragh.