Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No doubt we will go after landlords in that way. It is a disgrace. The PRTB should be abolished or resourced to the extent that it provides equal protection to tenants and landlords. Now the Government wants to go off and use them as bill collectors. As I said at the beginning, I do not doubt the Minister's commitment to making a very bad situation a little better, but the only way out of this, as with the voting machines, is to throw in the towel and say, "We have made an unmitigated mess of this scenario and we are not going to charge people for water." The Minister of State asked for alternatives. Here is his alternative-----