Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Irish Water is part of that scheme with the OPW to put in place the infrastructure to ensure we will have safe streets if we have a repeat of those two major floods in Cork.

We must ensure that Irish Water as a utility company has the confidence of the people. I listened to Deputy Pringle talk about mass boycotts and the people winning. What about the people who have made a principled stand to pay and register? Those people who pay want to have a service delivering clean drinking water without the necessity to boil that water, so that they can have that luxury, which is not a luxury at all in effect, of drinking water.

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