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Anti-Water Charges
Septic Tank Charge: Don't register, don't pay! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Emmett Farrell   
Monday, 30 January 2012 10:00

A major campaign of opposition to the septic tank charge and the Household Tax has developed throughout rural Ireland with meetings of 400-500 in Donegal Town and Malin in Donegal and 500 plus in Newcastle West, County Limerick. In some cases opportunist establishment politicians are helping organise these meetings but Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are largely responsible for the failure to provide an adequate modern waste water infrastructure and they will be found out in the course of the genuine campaign which is being built.

 
Gormley's announcement a 'cloak' to justify double taxation water charges PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joe Higgins MEP   
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 11:43

"Minister Gormley's annoucement that the funding necessary to improve the water infrastructure will amount to €1.8 billion comes as no surprise given the legacy of neglect and the absence of water conservation as well as rain and grey water harvesting measures advocated by myself and others during the buidling boom.

 
Successful Anti-Water Charges Forum PDF Print E-mail
Written by Michael Murphy   
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 12:30

Over 100 people packed into the Teachers’ Club in Dublin, last Saturday, to attend an anti-water charges forum convened by Joe Higgins, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin.

 
Water charges on the way back Boycott the Meter – Boycott the Charge! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Michael Murphy   
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 10:51

THANKS TO the Green Party and Fianna Fail’s continued attempts to make ordinary workers pay for the economic crisis, domestic water charges are on the way back for householders, 15 years after they were abolished.

 
Press Statement: Water Charges Will Spark A Water War PDF Print E-mail
Written by Socialist Party Reporter   
Friday, 16 October 2009 21:59

Green Party/Fianna Fail pledge to reintroduce water charges will spark a water war. Massive boycott will erupt – again. Monumental hypocrisy in talking about reducing water waste in view of utter inaction of last 15 years.

 
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