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

There is now a great deal of confusion on the other side of the House. Incidentally, this is the alternative Government which is proposing, on the one hand, to have free water or no water charges at all - it believes most services should be free and, on the other - this is a good one - maintains that we must get down to identifying what the precise number of litres per household should be, including the number each person uses in taking a shower. It should cop on and get real. The reality is that once we get into the minutiae we know full well that we are listening to rubbish. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív and I know each other well. When he comes up with that nonsense, he should expect me to laugh rather than take it seriously because it is not.

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