Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not believe the Government will end up charging for this period of time at all. I do not believe I will pay because one of the principles of taxation, or one of Adam Smith's canons of taxation, is certainty of taxation. Under the Constitution, the Government must tell people what taxes they owe but it has not told us. Nobody knows and it is a complete shambles.

The Government must do what Fianna Fáil has asked and suspend the water charges. I do not believe that anyone is under an obligation to pay water charges for October or November while this mess and shambles goes on.

Let us not forget that this is a shambolic Government. Once the troika left town and once the excuses that the Government had were over, it simply has not been able to run the country.