Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Fear a bhfuil Gaeilge aige. Can the Minister confirm the name by which this utility will be known? Will it be Uisce Éireann or Irish Water? Do not tell me it will be both. Obviously, if one is speaking Irish it will be Uisce Éireann, but there has been a tradition of enforcing our identity as a nation by giving the Irish name as the general name used by the public, as in the case of Bord Gáis, Córas Iompair Éireann, Bus Éireann, Íarnród Éireann and Bord Iascaigh Mhara. The idea that people born in Ireland or those who come to live within our shores have a difficulty with this is nonsense.

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