Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am not blaming the Ceann Comhairle at all. Is cara liom é. It is the officials and mandarins who ruled it out. They did so under the Minister's instructions and anything with a money cost gets ruled out. These people are entitled to a modicum of service. They have served this State well. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle has dazzled me now. They have paid their taxes and their rent and they are entitled to have a decent service like anyone else when there is a bust in the road. This is a quasi-public mains. It was built by the county council through contract or by the council itself directly and it should be maintained. It is an anomaly that is having an impact on old people in Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Tipperary town, in villages, in Caiseal Mumhain, Ard Fhíonáin agus gach baile eile and all the villages as well. People are suffering because of this but they should not be. Irish Water is just ignoring them. It says it cannot do it but it will not allow the council would do it. This is an anomaly that the Minister must fix. It is within his power to fix it and take those people out of their misery because this is backing up in the gardens of all these houses.

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