Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

When we submitted a freedom of information request to get the document in which the Minister confirmed that Bord Gáis Energy would be the parent company of Irish Water, it was completely redacted. We still have no knowledge of how the Minister made that decision. The Minister has criticised our party leader for ignoring a consultancy report without making any reference to why he made any reference to why he ignored the PricewaterhouseCoopers report he commissioned to determine what structure Irish Water should have.

On the last Thursday on which this Dáil sat the Minister and the Minister of State rammed this legislation through in three hours. Had this not happened we would not be here this Thursday getting answers to these questions. We would not have been here last night or on Tuesday night were it not for Sean O’Rourke having asked a question and for the work that Deputies Cowen and Collins, and other parties have done over the past two years. The Minister chose last night to apologise to one Deputy, his Government colleague, the Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy O’Dowd because he did not get back to him. What about all the other Deputies whose questions were ignored?

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