Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I would like to ask about the Water Services Bill 2003, which was debated on Second Stage in this House shortly after it was published. Two years passed before the Government initiated the Committee Stage debate on the Bill, which has not yet been enacted. When is it envisaged that the Bill will be enacted? Does the Tánaiste agree that the delay in introducing the water treatment facility in Galway is directly linked to the delay in the enactment of this legislation, which would have allowed that facility to be pursued as a public private partnership?

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