Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Deputies can laugh but if major industries cannot plan on the basis of reliable and clean water supplies over the next 30 years, they will not invest in this country. That would impact on jobs and real people's lives. Would the Deputies feel a sense of responsibility to those people?

I am averse to debates on the rural-urban divide because I lived for many years in Cork and Dublin.

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