Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I hate to break it to the Taoiseach but he is going to be sorely disappointed if that is his sincere hope. He has comprehensively failed to win the support of the people for the introduction of this charge. What he has left them with is a quango of enormous proportions, controversies around consultancy fees and so on, meters in the ground that cost a fortune and which are not being used. There is lead piping hither, thither and yon, which represents a threat to people’s health.

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