John Gilroy (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Good man. The word is "ultracrepidarian". The amendment is ostensibly decent enough but I do not think it is necessary. Surely everyone in the country is a householder or commercial user. While there is no reason we should not also specify trade union members, should we not also say that members of other representative groups have an equal claim to membership? I do not think we need to go much further on this.

Senator Byrne was particularly vocal on the argument that we have needlessly put €500 million into the ground with the installation of water meters. He described this as an outrage. I remind him that in 2010 Fianna Fáil approved in principle a loan of €550 million for the exact same work.