Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would like to return to the substantive issue of section 3 of the Bill. I suppose it is the nuts and bolts of this legislation. We are trying to cobble a system together to cover up a totally mismanaged and ill thought-out strategy. As someone asked here one day, where was Irish Water conceived? Where was the baby delivered? What kind of an infant was it? What kind of beast has it grown into?

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All of this happened under the watchful eye of the former Minister, whom I affectionately call Big Phil Hogan, and the able, civilised and more reasonable face at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government at the time-----

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