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Ireland has the second lowest infrastructural spend in the European Union (EU), according to Sinn Fein.
The party has called on the government to implement an ambitious water supply capital investment programme in the Meath Louth region.
Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín said it's clear that the infrastructure that we depend upon is "creaking at the seams".
He said: "Money that should have been invested into actual water supply infrastructure has been diverted by the government into the installation of Water Meters that will have no practical use in the future.
"Fine Gael has sought to play a three card trick on the citizens of this state. On one level they state that they have averted economic disaster. In actual fact, through debt and infrastructure decay, the have robbed from the future to pay for yesterday. 50,000 homes and business in Louth and Meath will be without water until the weekend. Communities throughout the state don’t know who will be next."
(CD/MH)
