INDEPENDENT Limerick TD Richard O’Donoghue hit out in the Dáil that Askeaton has been 49 years without a sewerage system.
Raw sewage, Deputy O’Donoghue claimed, is flowing into the Shannon, “water from which the government wants to pipe up here to Dublin to service the city’s water needs”.
“Raw sewage is going into the Shannon and the government wants to treat the water from the river and use it to service Dublin’s needs.
Some 73 per cent of what Uisce Éireann is now treating is water; the rest is sewage because they are both mixed. I have been at this for six or seven years, namely trying to bring about common sense and value for money when it comes to infrastructure,” he said.
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