Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We should recognise that positive things are being done because we have a desperate water infrastructure. That needs to be addressed and we need to be honest about it.

It is becoming clearer that Sinn Féin and the Anti-Austerity Alliance want general income taxpayers to pay for water. At least they are acknowledging that it has to be paid for one way or the other. If it is paid for that way, water services will be in competition with the construction of houses for people who are homeless, the education system, child care and everything else that needs to be paid for.

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