Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The people of this country have faced difficult choices in the last number of years. We are now emerging from a recession. I note the reports which indicate that Ireland is a leading economy in a European sense. Our challenge is to manage this carefully for the generation coming behind us. Nobody believes that people should not make a contribution for water. When someone turns on a tap, whether in Donegal, Louth, Clontarf, Kerry or Waterford, somebody has to pay for what comes out. I am not happy with a situation in which thousands of people are drinking water supplied through lead pipes-----

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