Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

I also wish to follow up on Question No. 1, which asked the Taoiseach to report on the commitment in the programme for Government on the Irish Water network. He read out what the programme for Government says on the matter but he did not answer the question. I would like him to answer the question. The programme for Government states that Irish Water "will supervise and accelerate the planned investments needed to upgrade the State’s inefficient and leaking water network". Will the Taoiseach acknowledge that he dismally failed in that regard in 2014? Will he comment on the response to RTE's freedom of information requests, which indicated that the investment in water infrastructure in 2013 and 2014 was the lowest in this State since 1998? Between 2004 and 2012, €430 million was invested annually but in the first 11 months of 2014 only €300 had been provided.

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