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

The Government has failed to win the political, social, fiscal and even moral argument on water charges. If it has done anything well, it is this. Irish Water has become the most productive and efficient fiasco factory any Government has managed to create in a long time. I cannot recall any other initiative which a Government has created that has produced so many problems and revisions, as well as difficulties for the citizen. Clearly, citizens are not paying up in sufficient numbers and the Government is looking for some big stick to get as many on board as possible.

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