Seanad debates
Friday, 19 December 2014
Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage
4:00 pm
Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source
There are a range of issues in these areas. Where do we go from here? Is there a necessity to have similar referendums for a range of other issues? I accept how important this issue is.
I stand in the House as a representative of the Government. I have been honourable in the sense that I have taken matters from here and brought them to Government. I have made the views of the House known to the Executive, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste. I have gone through it in detail with them. I am saying to the House, clearly, that this is as far as we can go on the issue. It is something that has taken a great deal of time and something we have considered in great detail, obviously, because it is a serious issue. I will not be accepting the amendment.
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