Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It would have been blown by now. The Government is now using those resources to fund small and medium-sized enterprises and to fund enterprise growth.

I will turn to the issue of why there must be charges in the area of water. Ireland has struggled with years of underinvestment in the water system. That is the reality and here, in my own city, we are on a knife edge.

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