Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This obnoxious legislation is, in effect, a form of collective punishment on all citizens for daring to voice their opposition through civil disobedience to the water charges. We have experienced at first hand the disintegration of the social democratic values hard won by the peoples of Europe. We are watching it again, this time in slow motion, in Greece because of the debt hard-liners in the Irish Government.

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