Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Evictions and people being removed from their homes are very traumatic incidents. As I said, if the Deputy gives me the details, we will look at that. The Deputy said we do not need water meters to have good water, and that is true. However, the taxpayers of this country are paying €1.2 billion to produce that water. We cannot have a situation where people can expect to have a free water supply of good water paid for the taxpayer, with some people not contributing.

These water meters are installed on the public thoroughfare, not on private property.

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