Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister acknowledge the reality that her Government's water tax, and the commodification of water that is part of it, does not have the support of the vast majority of ordinary people in this country?

Instead of recognising that and abolishing the water charges, we have the institution of political policing to track, observe and keep under surveillance people who are simply enunciating the objections of their community. Hundreds of thousands of people have been on the streets, representing a mass movement of ordinary people. Will the Minister agree that it is an entirely unjustified response from the establishment, which is trying to force a false tax on people that they do not want?

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