Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We are talking about the need for clarity and certainty and these words are repeatedly trotted out. We heard them earlier this year before the local elections, the protests and the comments by the Commission for Energy Regulation, CER. We would not be talking about this issue today if we did not have the game changer in the middle of October, when 100,000 people took to the streets. That is why we are here today. I attended the march in the middle of October when people were asking why it had not happened five years ago, even before the Government entered office. People realised that this was a powerful action and the message had to be put across in a way that it would people out onto the streets, onto which they will emerge in serious numbers on 10 December. If more than 100,000 people emerge onto them on that day, in what back-pedalling will the Government engage on the Irish Water issue at that point?

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