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

In that regard, the Taoiseach referred to the €100 grant as a conservation grant. Does he agree that marks a new degradation of the English language? An attempted political bribe becomes a conservation grant. Real conservation would be investment in people retrofitting their homes to save billions of litres of water or changing the planning laws to ensure that water saving devices are included in every home, which scandalously was not done for the 500,000 homes built during the bubble. Does the Taoiseach recognise reality? In April and May he will be facing a mass boycott of water by ordinary people, the decent tax paying backbone of the system. If he does not listen, this will decide the outcome of the next general election, to the detriment of his party and the Labour Party.

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