Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They should be scrapped and dealt with here in the Dáil, democratically and decisively. Here is the chance to get something done in this term. Let the people here, the Teachtaí Dála, vote on this issue, to scrap water charges, instead of kicking the issue down the road to an already undermined commission, or, in keeping with the fiction of new politics, does the Taoiseach have to ask an Teachta Martin for permission to do that?

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