Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. It is unbelievable. It is this flowery gibberish that glosses over the straight answers the people want.

Of course, the local authorities do not want to act as boot boys. They were rifled for all of their assets which were then handed to Irish Water. Does the Minister intend to make the local authorities and private landlords the boot boys of Irish Water in demanding payment, possibly through increasing rents or whatever other methods they will be asked to deploy against hard-pressed tenants to collect the ill-gotten gains of Irish Water? What is the Minister’s proposal in that regard? We know that landlords and the local authorities do not want to do it. We also know that people do not want to pay these hated charges.

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