Michael Mullins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and trying to prevent investment that would help provide employment opportunities in areas that have been badly neglected in the past. I come from a rural constituency where many communities have been paying for water, through their group water schemes, for many decades, and they cannot understand how people living in cities with water, sewerage and much better services have been exempt from any charge up to now. It is difficult to justify that.