Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A comprehensive approach and significant investment is needs in places such as Athlone and County Offaly.

The Government should consider using the National Pensions Reserve Fund, NPRF. The fund was used to finance Irish Water. This issue deserves to be the number one priority in the country because it will cost millions and millions of euro. We do not have a proper estimate of the cost. The Government has put forward a stopgap, sticking plaster approach.

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