Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

-----the Government seeks to ram through all Stages of this Bill today which has huge implications for our people through the imposition of new taxes for water into their homes and wastewater out of their homes and through the transfer of billions of euro of assets from local authorities to Uisce Éireann without proper procedures or preparation. It is quite incredible that in the week the Government is boasting of having seen the back of the troika and supposedly regaining our economic sovereignty that it is bringing in this new draconian measure putting taxes on our people at the behest of the same troika. This Bill is the preparation for the privatisation of our water supplies down the road, handing them over to large multinational companies. It is incredible and impossible that this Bill should be dealt with in this manner today.

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