Taoiseach Must Pause Plans to Increase Water Charges – IFA
IFA President Francie Gorman has sent a letter to the Taoiseach expressing his view that a pause needs to be put in place with regard to plans for an increase in water charges on October 1st. “In light of the comments made by An Taoiseach at the Ploughing last week that he intends to use […]
Proposed Hike in Water Charges Unacceptable & Needs to Be Reviewed Urgently
IFA Environment chair John Murphy expressed his view on the proposed increase in water charges due to be introduced on the 1st of October, saying they are unacceptable and need to be reviewed. He said that the guiding principles of the tariff framework say that they should be equitable and not discriminate between customers. “This […]
Water Charges Can Now Be Phased back in to Operation over Time, Probably After the Next General Election! – Seamus Healy TD
Fianna Fáil have voted against several amendments to the recommendations on water charges which Fianna Fáil, itself, proposed last week. On all key row-back amendments, the Labour Party, the Greens and Noel Grealish (IND) voted with FF and Fine Gael at the Committee Then the Labour Party and the Greens, hard-line supporters of charging for water […]
Harkin MEP Denounces Irish Politicians on Water Charges
Irish politicians who were trying to blame Brussels on the water charges issue in pursuit of their own agendas had no legal basis for their arguments. This charge was levelled in the European Parliament in Strasbourg by Independent MEP Marian Harkin when she denounced political attempts to blame Brussels in the current controversy. Marian Harkin […]
‘To pay or not to pay water charges, there is no Question’- Harkin MEP
“There is no question as to whether Ireland will not be in breach of EU regulations if we decide not to apply water charges.” This was stated by Marian Harkin MEP, having analysed EU Commission responses and a recent judgment from the European Court of Justice. The first and most obvious reason is that Water […]
Irish Water Fiasco
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has called on the Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly to resign following confirmation of an embarrassingly low rate of payment of bills from Irish Water. Deputy McGrath was speaking after the controversial quango released figures indicating that just 43% of the company’s 1.5 million customers have paid their bills; leaving […]
Government Must Withdraw Water Charges
Seamus Healy TD said that well over half of those billed have not paid the water charge. This shows that the majority of the Irish people are opposed to these charges and the Government and Minister Kelly should now withdraw the charges. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the biggest civil society organisation in Ireland, […]
Seamus Healy TD Slates Minister Alan Kelly for Hypocrisy and Broken Promises on Water Charges in Dáil
“This is the same Deputy Alan Kelly who stood in the general election in 2011 in Tipperary North. He knocked on every door in that constituency and asked every voter to give him their number one vote so that he could make sure that Fine Gael would not impose water charges on this country and […]
TEEU calls for abolition of Water Charges
Technical Engineering and Electrical Union representing 40,000 Irish craft workers have called for the abolition of Water Charges at their national Conference TradeUnion Update on Water Charges TEEU now joins MANDATE, UNITE, CWU, CPSU, OPATSI in campaigning for abolition. But SIPTU still supports the principal of charging households for water. This makes water a tradeable commodity […]
Seamus Healy TD Replies to Minister Alan Kelly in Dáil on Water Charges
The irony and hypocrisy of today’s announcement introducing water charges by Labour Party Minister Alan Kelly T.D. will not be lost on the general public. During the last General Election Minister Kelly and the Labour Party asked the people of North Tipperary to vote for him to prevent Fine Gael imposing Water Charges. He […]
