Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In Dublin we would not be looking for individual leaks. The cast-iron pipes have been corroded and the four-inch pipes have a bore of two inches left, as the rest consists of corrosion. We would not be fixing leaks here and there but rather replacing pipes. It is not a matter of looking for leaks and one does not need a meter to know where are the pipes I have mentioned. These pipes were leaking ten years ago and it is worse now.

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