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

Is the Government not being entirely dishonest or ignorant in its assertion that water metering and charges will not lead to the privatisation of water services when the EU treaties which the Labour Party, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil supported and for which they advocated a "Yes" vote make it absolutely clear - I refer to Articles 106 and 107 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union - that once charges are introduced for a service and it becomes revenue producing, all EU laws on competition and state aid apply to that service-----

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