David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State may be able to afford to use that €100 to invest in water conservation measures, but the vast majority of people will not. That is the reality. That is not what this is designed to be. If the Minister of State from the Labour Party is saying to people who genuinely cannot afford to pay water charges that the €100 could be spent on rainwater harvesting, it is a new dimension to the tragedy that is Irish Water.