Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I refer to newspaper reports over the past few days about European Court of Justice, ECJ, fines. We dealt with this issue under the Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012. I thought by introducing the legislation and putting charges and registrations fees on people the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government had dealt with the ECJ issue. We now find we have the worst of all worlds. We have enacted a Bill but we will have to pay the fines as well. Have we any clout in Europe?

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