Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Minister seems to be giving a get out of jail card to people involved in deliberate tax avoidance. If the boycott campaign against the water charges does not succeed in bringing about their abolition, in the next budget or the one after that will he adopt a similar attitude towards the penalties the Government plans to impose on water charges? That would be consistent with the logic he is applying now.