Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

The Government has lacked vision in terms of involving communities. One needs only look at the evidence provided by group water schemes to show how keen people are to be involved at community level. Communities set these up and have been involved in running them on a voluntary basis with very little help from Government, particularly in the past. Those communities are willing to get involved and I urge the Government not to miss the opportunity but to accept the challenge to involve communities. We could have a bright future in this regard.

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