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

People will no longer tolerate being lied to in general elections - pretending there will be no water charges and then stabbing them in the back, as the Labour Party did.

The reason we need more time is that the latest political trickery the Government is up to, which involves pretending to people that water charges will only cost them a crooked halfpenny and telling them they should not be too worried about the charges, will not be accepted.

People know what the Government is up to. The minute it gets them embedded, which it could do but will not, they will rise inexorably as soon as the pressure is off. We need the time to explain that to the Taoiseach because he is a very slow learner with regard to what our people will and will not tolerate.

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