Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

There is a team of so-called experts who, as my colleague, Deputy Paul Murphy, has already said, have a set, pre-ordered agenda of being in favour of charging ordinary people for water. It is clear how the water committee the Government is going to set up in the Dáil will go. It will be able to discuss nothing except what the Minister wants it to discuss. It cannot discuss water meters or any of the issues preying on people's minds in regard to water charges.

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