Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

Right. Regarding the point made by Deputy McAuliffe about exiting the market, these markets were artificially created by the imposition of charges and then tendering out to private services. This is what happened. In terms of the answer from the Minister of State, it is kind of unclear. On the one hand, he kind of points towards the councils and suggests that they maybe could do this, when there is a very clear report from the IPA, commissioned by Dublin City Council, that states legislation is needed. On the other hand, the Minister of State says we need to do all these things, but he will not make a policy commitment. Will the Government do this? Will it commit to investigating these things the Minister of State has said need to be investigated so we can have remunicipalisation?

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