Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

How many have signed up? The only consistent message we hear is that lots of people have signed up. On Monday morning the Minister told us that 1.23 million had signed up, an increase of 130,000 in the past four weeks. Last night we heard the figure of 1.23 million, which was an increase of 120,000 in the past seven weeks. The Government's motion refers to a figure of 1.237 million households having responded, but we have a response from Irish Water from a month ago which refers to a figure of 1.23 million.

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