The Keep Water Public Name The Date postcard campaign is supported by a number of trade unions.
Cork water workers are stepping up their campaign in support of a referendum aimed at keeping water in public ownership.
They plan to hand in nearly 1000 postcards to the constituency office of Tanaiste Micheal Martin in Turners Cross at lunchtime.
The Keep Water Public Name The Date postcard campaign is supported by a number of trade unions as well as the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.
John Mullins is a water services worker with Cork City Council:
"If the referendum was held in the morning we'd have no issue whatsoever in going to Irish water. We are not anti-Irish water.
In actual fact we feel that a single national water utility in principle is a very good idea. But it's because of the way Irish water is being run and governed, that's where our problem lies.
But if it's in public ownership, yeah I'll be the first to sign up. I'll go to Irish water if it's kept in public ownership and maintained by the public."