John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

All modern cities have water charges and domestic property taxes. This is taken as the norm. Yet, Fine Gael cannot even come up with a position on water charges. Why can it not do that? It is because it cannot take tough decisions on anything - that is the difficulty. Instead of waffling on, when the Deputy talks about the four local authorities, he should remember his party came up with the idea of the four local authorities - it was its idea.

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