Paul Daly (Fianna Fail)

I accept the Minister of State's response. Regarding his final point, the people I represent here do not have redundant meters; they are needed. There is an accumulation of costs because the meters are fragmented. Before 2014 and the establishment of Irish Water, the local authorities decided this. They had one customer charge irrespective of the number of meters.

I take on board what the Minister of State said about how neither he nor I could influence Uisce Éireann's charging regime, but it is hard to accept that. We are the policymakers and Deputy Cummins is the Minister of State. As I said at the outset, I will not be going away. There must be some way we can have an input into this issue. It is common sense. I know that seems to be very much a thing of the past, but it is something I would like to revive. We need to have common sense, if we can at all. Either in his response now or later, the Minister of State might tell me how as a policymaker, as public representative, elected on the Agricultural Panel to deal with issues in the agriculture sector, I can positively influence this in future for the people out there. I am not trying to influence it in any way in the negative.