Caít Keane (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

From a conservation standpoint, we need to have meters to ensure that people will look at them and conserve water. When we have them in all of the houses there will be conservation of up to 5% or 10%. It is important that we go down the road of conservation.

I have one question for the Minister on the new building proposals. A previous Minister outlined that installing a rainwater harvesting system could reduce consumption and help drive down utility bills. Would he make a comment on that? We look forward to legislation coming through the House to ensure such systems will be in all new buildings in the future, and indeed in old ones if possible.