Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I have a question on that. The amendment provides that rather than the Dáil having the power to lower the threshold for the so-called excessive use charge in five years' time, thereby bringing more and more people into the excessive use charge net and implementing de facto water charges through the back door, the Dáil shall not have that power in five years' time and shall not have it for a period less than 999 years. I am querying the precise grounds upon which the amendment has been ruled out of order.

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