Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State brought it up. His logic for bringing in the metering was that it was a water conservation measure and meters had to be installed throughout the country to enable this type of conservation. I do not agree with that. He is incorrect. District metering could be introduced. I know from dealing with Irish Water on a number of local issues that it has reviewed every project that was on the slate. Has this project been reviewed by the company? Have staff examined whether this can be done through district watering? It could save a great deal of money and hundreds of thousands of meters would not need to be installed because other technologies could be used to check the leaks between the district meter and the domestic user. The money could be used to fix the system as opposed to using water meters as a cash register to collect taxes from people.