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

I will raise the issues raised by the Deputy with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. There should be engagement with communities. There has to be. I will pursue that.

On the earlier point, given the rain that is falling we should not be short of water. I put that question to Uisce Éireann when I was Taoiseach a number of years ago. All of us, collectively as a society, should collect water when it rains and store it. If we get a notice this summer saying we need to reduce our water usage, it will be some moment for the country; I will put it that way.

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