Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

How would it pay for local services? It does not tell us. This is the great economic black hole that Sinn Féin has created. In the North it is happy to collect an average of £1,000 per household for spending on local services.

Of course, Sinn Féin points the finger of blame up there at Westminster, while here it points it at the Irish Government. The party always puts it on the other hand and the other finger. This is real populism at its very worst. Regarding the Independents and the independent socialists, I always thought that socialism promoted and supported the idea of progressive taxation, but not the unique group that we have, the motley crew in Dáil Éireann. They, and indeed Sinn Féin representatives, went around this country encouraging people, at marches and public meetings, not to pay the household charge.

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