Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Protest is a normal part of any democracy. The programme laid out here is one that will bring our country back from the dark ages in terms of water infrastructure and waste water infrastructure. It is about the capacity of Irish Water to borrow and invest not just to keep a situation band-aided, where fundamental problems are never addressed, but to clean it up, fix it and invest for the future so that all the people of the country can have clarity and assurance about having high quality water. It is a system that has to be paid for while ensuring it does not have 40% of treated water leaking away into the ground before it ever reaches the houses and businesses of those for whom it is intended.

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