Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Much to the Government's own annoyance, it has admitted this, given how it has put in place the quango of Irish Water with 700 staff as a tier above local authorities that are doing the same job that they had been doing anyway. Not a single euro more than what was being spent annually before this Government entered office is being spent on water infrastructure.

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