Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State.

There are 3,000 people working in water services. Local authorities have funding for water services through commercial rates in particular, but they will not have this funding anymore. They still have their staff and I presume the Croke Park agreement protects their jobs so there will be no forced redundancies. How will this balance out? If the local authorities do not have the money coming in from water, how can they afford to keep all those people on their books? Has the Government worked that out?

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