Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----a pattern of investment in this country. Deputy McDonald's party is addressing that issue in the North at the moment where it going to let thousands of civil servants go in order to meet the financial requirements of her party being in government in the North and addressing the financial issues of the North, so we have to address the financial reality. More than a 1 million households have signed up to Irish Water.

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