FF Accused Of Having 'No Unconditional Commitment' To Scrap Water Charges

Fianna Fáil has been accused of having "no unconditional commitment" to scrap the water charges by Sinn Féin.

Spokesperson on water Eoin Ó Broin said the last six months the party has flitted between abolition, suspension and abolition again.

He said: "On a number of occasions Fianna Fáil has had an opportunity to place its support for the abolition of water charges on the Dáil record and keep a key pledge of its General Election manifesto. As recently as September this year Fianna Fáil failed to support a Sinn Féin motion calling for the abolition of the charges.


"The question now is not when the next Fianna Fáil u-turn on the charges will occur it's what weak justification for the charges the party will cling to when the so-called expert commission returns its pre-determined recommendations."

(CD/MH)