We have had water supplied through our taps for many years, paid for, in my lifetime, first by rates and then through national exchequer funding. Now, with a consultancy cost of €80m, it becomes Uisce Éireann and we are going to have to pay water rates.

In the Dail Mary Lou McDonald stated “Anyone associated with the abuse of a child or the cover-up of abuse must face the full rigours of the law”.

WITH the announcement of reforms to the public service, would the time have arrived when public service employment contracts should include a section whereby a public servant who, by omission or commission causes public money to be wasted, should work for a period of years at reduced salary?

THE constitution calls for a maximum of one TD for every 20,000 electors and a minimum of one for every 30,000.