Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Why would one pay the water charge if one gets the €100 in any event? Those who have paid must be looking askance at the situation having learned of it this morning. Even if one is not an Irish Water customer, one will get the €100. If one does not pay one's bill, one will get the €100. Could the Taoiseach explain the reason a person would get a €100 conservation grant if he or she does not even pay his or her water charges bill? Does the Taoiseach accept that the policy has failed? The figures reveal that. After 14 U-turns on this entire saga, it is time to call a halt and to abolish the charges and this whole operation and edifice. It is a moment of high farce that the Government has now landed us in and it is time to go back to the drawing board and start afresh.

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