Book reveals former finance minister opposed water meters but was overruled by Enda Kenny

Former Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, was sharply opposed to the idea of putting water meters outside every home in the State but was overruled by then-Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, a new book reveals.

The book, 'In Deep Water – How People, Politics and Protests sank Irish Water' by political journalist, Michael Brennan, details how then-Environment Minister, Phil Hogan, drafted a cabinet memo for a €450 million plan to put water meters in more than one million households, but had still to win Mr Noonan over.