Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In any event, questions from Members will be answered here by the Ministers concerned with the environment and Irish Water, and that is as it should be. This is a public utility. There is nothing secret about it and all of these issues will be teased out as appropriate. Deputy McDonald is aware from meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts of the full, exhaustive lengths that were gone into about these charges. As this moves on, when the financial and business model is presented by the Government, people will be fully aware of exactly how this is structured and set up to operate in the interests of the Irish people, the Irish consumer, as a public utility. This is an issue to which we will return again.

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