Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the commitment in the programme for Government on reliefs for low-income households for refuse collection charges. It was promised two years ago. I wish the Government another happy anniversary but it is two years on and next Monday the same low-income households will get letters about the property tax and they face water charges next year. I refer to widows, pensioners, the disabled and the blind. They all face the taxes and charges. People in Laois are paying refuse charges to private companies for the past 26 years. We are waiting that long for a waiver scheme.

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