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

Will the Taoiseach make time available next week - or certainly before 23 May - for a debate in order that we might clarify the Government's position in respect of water charges? I analysed the figures the Government released yesterday and discovered that the claim to the effect that the additional allowance of 38,000 litres per year in respect of each child under 18 years of age will mean that the latter will receive free water is absolutely false.

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