Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

With all due respect, I see issues arising. We have seen issues with unions recently with the two Haddington Road agreements. Much pressure was put on the unions to accept the agreements on the table. How do we know a future Government which wanted to sell off the State’s water utilities will not bring such pressure to bear? Unless it is in the legislation that the service level agreement will be in place for 12 years, then the Minister cannot guarantee there will not be a change of the position in the interim.