Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I am discussing actual rats in pipes. A man who came to my office this week had rats coming into his house because of cracks in his water pipes. This is a serious problem and happens quite a lot when rats get into cracked sewer pipes. Many of these sewer pipes go across some of the demarcation lines I spoke about. In this man’s case, the sewer pipe is coming from a council property into a private property. Whose responsibility is it? It is quite possible that the rats are coming from the council’s area, but the problem is manifesting in somebody’s private property. The man in question claims it is the council’s problem, while the council is claiming it is Irish Water’s problem.

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