Ann Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have sympathy for the issue the Senator has raised. The recent floods have thrown up anomalies in these areas and about who has responsibility for this and that. When I was on Kilkenny County Council - it is the same in Carlow - the local authority did not have responsibility for water pipes on private property. It was the owners who had responsibility in that respect.

The Senator might speak to the director of services at his local authority to examine how this could work in the future. If the Senator’s party gets into government after the next general election and abolishes Irish Water, he could do all of these things in the future.