Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Water is essential for human and animal life and ahead of food. Therefore, we need to place the provision on a statutory footing. For too long leeway has been given to semi-State organisations to provide annual reports in which very important information tends to be buried. All I seek is a simplified breakdown. Let me give an example. There is a statutory requirement on some semi-State organisations to provide a breakdown of expenditure or job creation on a region or region or county by county basis. This means that a precedent has been set and I want this statutory requirement to be extended to Irish Water. I will accept nothing less than having it stipulated in the Bill. It does not matter whether it is the Minister of State, a future Minister or whoever else is involved-----