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TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY would not firmly rule out the possibility that the Revenue Commissioners could pursue householders for unpaid water charges in the Dáil this afternoon.
During Leaders’ Questions this afternoon the Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams pressed Kenny for a commitment that the Revenue would not be tasked with going after people who do not pay their water charges, including potentially deducting from their social welfare payments.
But Kenny said repeatedly that all issues related to Irish Water will be dealt with next week.
He told the Dáil that government “will put at ease people’s fears and concerns” without going into specifics.
He said: “We’ll deal with all of these questions next week, Deputy Adams. And Revenue, and social welfare. All of them.”
Kenny also accused some Sinn Féin representatives in Sligo of giving out misinformation by telling people that all the money paid in to Irish Water is going to German banks.
He also said that Irish Water will fix the first leak in houses and thereafter it will be the responsibility of householders to contact their plumber.
Indpendent TD Catherine Murphy also raised the water charges issue, asking Kenny if he has confidence in the new semi-state utility.
But the Taoiseach repeatedly stated that all matters related to Irish Water would be dealt with next week.
He added: “We will put people at ease in respect of the fairness, the affordability and the accountability – that their money is going into investment in a system and not into some other blackhole that people have been talking about around the country. ”
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The ‘who killed your granny’ budget
@John F doe: The “fix Britain after 14 years of the Tories” budget
@Anthony Curran: by killing off the elderly? I know you shinners have a low value on life but this is disgraceful
@John F doe:
A quick Google search will show you just what the tories thought of the elderly…Savage cuts to resources for vulnerable people..
@John F doe: if SF get in this is exactly what will be facing us if not worse.
I wonder will Ireland be loaning money to the U.K.? As the loaned money to us when we were in a very dire state but we still are unfortunately.
@Tommy: we should absolutely help our wonderful nearest and dearest if needs be, they did it for us
@John F doe: dearest?
@Tommy: Economics clearly isn’t your strong suit.
@John F doe: In fairness they provided jobs for the Irish for decades, and still do, not that we need them as much these days.
@Tommy: let’s go Tommy Robinson
@John F doe: And maybe charge them an outlandish rate of interest like they did to us !!
Mad how the Torys can do whatever they like, recklessly destroy the economy BUT Labour oOOoooo ‘pure evil’… politics is truly pathetic
@Thesaltyurchin: the conservatives never launched an attack on the elderly
@John F doe: You’re absolutely dense.
@John F doe: Are you thick?. What age group do you think uses an underfunded NHS more than any other ?
@Ian: I agree
@John F doe: neither have Labour so what on earth are you talking about?
so she can take the blame when it will backfire
For all those ppl in ireland u say “the government can’t get any worse” of course it can get worse
The Budgies won’t be impressed with a tax hike.
Labour a bit like our own, pretend to be sympathetic and be the voice for the working class, yet when in power, o difficult decisions will have it be made. A conservative landslide is likely when they eventually put in a motion of no confidence against this travesty. Stammer the worst Labour PM since Ramsay MacDonald
@Alan: the Tories ran the country in to the ground for over a decade. That Labour would actually try and fix that by taxing the people that can afford it isn’t the “travesty” you think it is. The Tories are trying to paint this budget as crippling the working class but that’s, once again, is an utter lie.
Yep, how do you tax all the profits from State assets sold for a pittance to cronies and then offshored and shielded from view forever?
The once Great Britain is now little Britain a byproduct off Brexit.
What is this talk of Labour having promised not to raise taxes? Let’s be clear what they promised was not to raid Texas, and so far they have honoured that!
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