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

By decree of the Government, in only seven days time it will have another punitive tax on ordinary people in the form of water charges. Is it not incredible that we still do not have the information from the energy regulatory as to what exactly the Government will demand from households? On the social welfare Bill, will the €100 grant the Tánaiste proposes for some categories of welfare recipient be provided for in that?

See this speech in context