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Calls For Government To Put Brakes On Irish Water

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07:24 27 Jan 2014


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There's a call for the government to put the brakes on Irish Water.

The Green Party's been responding to a warning that up to 2 billion euro is going to be overspent on staffing the new agency.

A leading economist says that because of a contract clause, the company will pay more than 4 thousand staff from local authorities around the country, when it only needs about 17 hundred.

It's the latest spending controversy to hit Irish Water - and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan says the government needs to admit they got it wrong and start all over again:


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