Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The fundamental question is why the Government set this up in the first instance at all. It has not achieved anything it was intended to achieve. Will the Taoiseach outline to me in terms of the cost of laying off the 1,200 to 1,500 people how and when that will take place? Will he set out the status of the flat-rate charge post 2022? Will the conservation grant continue to be paid to those who do not pay their bills? Does the Taoiseach accept that the water meters represent a colossal waste of public money given that they will not be used for the next seven years of the plan or even beyond that?

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