Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)

I heard the first part of the Minister of State's reply previously. In fact, it was the reply he gave to a previous question on today's Order Paper.

I wish to ascertain how the body will operate in practice. Will staff working in local authorities' water sections be assigned to this new company? If functions are to be centralised, what about headquarters staff? I take it that we are not only dealing with providing infrastructure, but with its maintenance, in that the new company will take over the local authorities' responsibility in this regard entirely. What will be the position of the private group schemes?

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