The long saga of the water charges in Ireland is about to enter into terminal velocity, after Sinn Fein’s MEP Lynn Boylan claims to have received legal information that states that the charges can indeed be scrapped.
This is in direct collision course with EU officials, who are saying the opposite.
Caught in between it all are the Irish Government and the Irish people, who also seem to sport opposing views on the matter.
Ms. Boylan said that “It (the legal advice) confirms what we have said all along, which tallies with the responses we got from the Commission to Parlimentary questions and through emails and through other MEP’s that Ireland would not be in contravention of the water framework directive if it chose to abolish water charges.
“Provided that it showed that it was complying with all the other objectives of the directive, which is around the conservation of water.”