Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Stopping water charges would have an even greater effect. The Taoiseach’s proposal for a tax credit of 20% of the water charges to a figure kept at €100 in no way compensates for the impact on hard-pressed families.

I do not know what the Taoiseach does not get about this. It is not that people will not pay; the fact is that they cannot pay. People will not be able to pay their bills next week because of the Government’s stealth taxes. That is what they are telling me in County Louth.

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