Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

When the Government is imposing water meters on communities that do not want them and using the force of the law to try to ram them in, it is going to divide people. I encourage people to heed the message that if there is resistance, the water meters will be stopped. That is the lesson. The solutions here have come from people organising to resist. The reason there is suspension of water charges is not because any of the Government members had a change of heart or Fianna Fáil had a change of heart but because of a protest movement that built pressure. The reason there was a partial step back in terms of bin charges was again because people protested. Protesting and organising achieve change. We are offering the Minister a solution here, which is to stop the water metering.

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