Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The water services Bill is due to be published this session. We hope to have it by the end of November, but the intention is to have it this session. The transfer of the water services and infrastructure from the local authorities to Irish Water represents a major reform of our water services. Much discussion has gone on between the Department, local authorities and Irish Water on protocols and other arrangements. As we saw in Dublin in recent weeks, there is a need to modernise the way in which we deliver water to the public to ensure that adequate resources are invested in it in future. This change is a major undertaking and there is quite a lot of work going on with it.

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