Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)

-----finds itself without water. It is bad enough to be dealing with the floods but now there is non-availability of water to the homes of 80,000 people. The emergency services are doing their best but if there had been some forward planning and foresight many of these issues might have been avoided.

More fundamentally, water supply must be examined. An outside organisation should be brought in to analyse the situation clearly, without fear or favour-----

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