Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)

The reality is that circumstances and resources exist in this country and necessary work and materials are in place which could, for example, deal with the archaic water mains infrastructure which could put tens of thousands of people to work repairing that network. In regard to the septic tank debacle, does the Minister think householders are going to solve that crisis on their own? It is a civil engineering matter. I mention areas in my constituency and Wavin pipes. The materials are there as are the workers but this Government has failed to match the two. Clearly, it is quite happy to preside over 0.5 million people on the dole.

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