Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I cannot give the Deputy a timeframe as to when the necessary advice from the Attorney General will be available. I do not believe I have been asked for a money message on this yet although I may stand to be corrected on that. That we no longer have water charges and that Irish Water is very much back on the State's balance sheet kind of removes the urgency for a referendum of the nature in question.

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