Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy may wish to look into his heart and ask himself what the people wanted. He should ask himself whether they want cryptosporidium in their water supply. Have they indicated that this is the way they want it, or have they indicated otherwise? I will ask him a further question. He should know well - he is an intelligent man - that if the groundwater supply becomes polluted, all water in the country will be polluted. Archimedes proved this a long time ago. Water finds its own level and if one pollutes part of the supply of groundwater, everything will be polluted over a given period.

We are bound by national and international law to address these issues. We find ourselves in a situation - I understand how Fianna Fáil is in something of a quandary - because, as I said before-----

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