Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That party has spent recent weeks engaging in cheap publicity stunts in the Dáil in order to distract from its own lack of answers to many of the questions that have been posed.

Sinn Féin has failed utterly to explain how it would pay the price of €800 million plus for abandoning progressive water reform. Its policy of keeping Irish Water but abandoning water charges would add more than €800 million to the deficit next year. We still do not know where it can bridge that gap. The reality is that it is imposing huge tax increases on workers to pay for everybody's water. Everyone earning over €32,800 is deemed to be wealthy by Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin based on their voting record when considering the Finance Bill.