Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These reforms are essential for the future provision of high-quality water services following decades of a fragmented approach by Fianna Fáil Governments which have left us with a broken water system, as we all know. A total of 23,500 people are on boil-water notices, 40% of our water supply is lost to leakage, 16% of our water supplies are at risk, which affects more than one million people, and one-third of secondary wastewater treatment plants had inadequate effluent standards in 2012. There is virtually no spare supply capacity in Dublin, which threatens job creation. The establishment of Irish Water as a single utility company to replace the current 34 separate water authorities will result in more co-ordinated investment and improve water quality nationwide.

Fianna Fáil had one policy on water charges-----