Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I need to study the Minister's answer carefully, and I can see it contains quite a lot of detail. What I want to know is the extent to which this money is being used to subsidise private companies. There are many aspects to the anger around Irish Water but one aspect is that money out of people's pockets could be going into the pockets of highly paid executives and consultants and into what is legally a private entity which might be privatised further down the road. Essentially, we are subsidising making other people very rich. I want to know if that is happening with the public service obligation levy. Is the money going into the pockets of private companies? How much of it is going into the pockets of private companies? What are they doing with the money? Is it being used to pay people exorbitant salaries, big bonuses and God knows else and to make other profits for the shareholders in private companies? I want to know that detail. Can the Minister give us information on the companies that are getting it?

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