John Kelly (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Like others I welcome the new water charges, which I believe are fair and reasonable. I compliment the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, who inherited an unholy mess in the establishment of Irish Water. Now we can invest in fixing our leaking pipes, something which we have not done although we have been paying for water for years through our taxes. Now we are in a position to deliver good quality drinking water to everybody in the country. This is comfort to far more than 21,000 people in Roscommon who have been on boil water notices for many years, and I welcome it very much. With regard to the PPS numbers mentioned by Senator Quinn, there was never a necessity to provide PPS numbers and because of this I never filled out the form. I will now fill it out. I knew there was no necessity for them in the first place.