According to reports this morning it is believed that Fianna Fáil have pledged their support to scheme that would see those who use excessive amounts of water having to pay for it.
The party’s decision comes after an expert commission recommended last week that the country’s water infrastructure should be paid through general taxation, although there should be charges for people who use excessive amounts.
Speaking about the proposal Fianna Fáil’s spokesman on Housing, Planning and Local Government Barry Cowen, said: “So you have to ask yourself, and the committee must ask itself: what’s normal use, what’s excessive use, should we continue with individual metering or should there be district metering, which is a recommendation again of the committee, what methods of conservation should be explored other than the view of the previous Government that the only form of conservation in town as far as they were concerned, was the enforcement of water charges’,”.