Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

When Deputy Dooley's party left government its legacy was that people in County Roscommon had been unable to drink their water for almost 12 years. After Christmas and in the new year, the people of Roscommon will be able to drink their water. I would have expected the Deputy to take a positive view of that.

We have an ambitious programme of investment in Irish Water amounting to more than €10 billion over the next ten years. If the Fianna Fáil Party is suggesting that all of this finance should come directly via taxpayers, particularly through income tax, I suggest their approach would result in us failing to use a resource, namely, off-balance sheet funding mechanisms-----

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