Kelly: “Ireland must keep ‘affordable’ water charges or we will face hefty EU fines” – TheLiberal.ie – Our News, Your Views

Kelly: “Ireland must keep ‘affordable’ water charges or we will face hefty EU fines”




The former Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly has claimed the government must keep Water Charges or they will face massive fines from the EU.

The Labour party TD says the charges must remain in order to comply with EU law. Mr Kelly who was a firm supporter of the much hated charges told reporters “Somebody just needs to call a spade, a spade.”

“It’s either we have water charges, affordable water charges, or we’ll have massive fines. We signed up to European regulations, we signed up under various different treaties to European law.

“You can’t just cherry pick, especially seeing as in 2010 we already made this decision. “You can’t just say we like some laws, we’ll take them and we don’t like other laws and we won’t take them.”

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