Noise nuisance Bill
Thomas P. Broughan asked whether the noise nuisance Bill had been abandoned and briefly raised water charges, but the Chair directed him back to legislation. The Minister said he had no date for the noise Bill.
I was going to ask about the planning legislation also. Has the noise nuisance Bill completely gone off the clár? There are a couple of issues in the Minister's and my constituency and this could be important legislation in respect of them.
I refer to an earlier discussion and the proposal by the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, to give families €5 or €10 per week back in the budget in a few weeks time. Has any consideration been given simply to scrapping the water tax at least until the general election? Perhaps the general election could be used as a referendum to decide whether we should go ahead with this morass that is Irish Water and this terrible imposition.
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This is becoming the straw that broke the camel's back.
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-----if the Government will give consideration to removing this tax.
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That could be a proposal for budget 2015.
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As Deputy McDonald said earlier, we are crushing-----