Sinn Féin is once again calling on the government to scrap the unfair water charges.

At the Right2Water protest in Ballymun today, Monday, Councillor Noeleen Reilly

said: "The taxes have not led to improved services, they have each been unfair and have targeted those on lower incomes disproportionately."

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She said: "The Irish government calls it a water charge – the Irish people see it for what it is – another tax that, if introduced, will put many people over the edge and will further hamper our domestic economies.

"That, under pressure, the government has now introduced temporary caps prove that this charge has nothing to do with water conservation but is just another attack on Irish families' incomes."

(CD/JP)