Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I know this is taking extra time but I want to thank Deputy McDonald for disassociating herself and her party from what happened in Tallaght on Saturday. It is not good for anyone in Ireland and not good for the community. It is not about me, it is about the community in Tallaght and Jobstown.

With regard to her question, under the revised package of a fresh start for Irish Water, people in a single adult household charge will pay, net, €1.15 a week. People in a household with two adults or more will pay a net charge of €3 a week. Deputy McDonald speculated about why people marched. I know people who marched and I have talked to a lot of people about the issue. As well as the matters about which the Deputy was talking, they want clean water, they want an end to the spectacle of 42 rivers having raw sewage dumped into them, they want to see a programme-----

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