Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)

Does the Minister of State agree that it is very disingenuous to blame Fianna Fáil for bringing in the water tax, as it is, when Fine Gael and Labour voted for it two weeks before the election by approving the memorandum of understanding with regard to the bailout? Does the Minister of State agree that we might be better off considering the retrofitting of homes and using grey water? We should only use the treated water for which we pay big money in taps, kettles and drinking water. This is in preference to flushing good water down toilets. We should be looking to create jobs around repairing pipes that leak more than 45% of the water in them and retrofitting homes. That would be a much better use of money instead of introducing water meters.

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