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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014): Peter Mathews: ...said we would be relying on the kindness of strangers when at that stage even the scale of losses had not been fully admitted? I will not look and point to one side of the House or the other side of the House; we are where we are. The challenge now is maybe to come down on 28 December to Ballyhea to the 200th protest at the complete wrongfulness of the imposition of what still remains...

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