Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Their questions were not answered. In his remarks last night, the Minister of State, Deputy O’Dowd, made the point that the budget for Irish Water was presented to the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Economic Management Council. Who presented the budget? That is important. If the detail of the budget was presented to the Cabinet whoever presented it obviously knew its detail. That would contradict what the Secretary General of the Department said last night. We have to drive this on.

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