Michael McNamara (Clare, Labour) | Oireachtas source

You are very welcome. Like the Deputy, Samuel Beckett acknowledged that it is very difficult to judge what happens today, that only in hindsight can one judge things. He said:

Let us not speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true that the population has increased.

That is the kind of debate we are having about Irish Water and the failures of this, the previous and numerous other Governments to deal with water. "It is true the population has increased", and we have to deal with it. Those words come from "Waiting for Godot", which is a tragicomedy in two acts, or at least that is what it is called.

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