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SF launch anti water charges
campaign
19.07.11
SINN Féin in Inishowen
has launched a campaign to oppose the Government’s
proposed introduction of water charges.
The party has erected billboards and delivered
thousands of campaign leafelts in the peninsula and
across the county.
Deputy Pádraig MacLochlainn described the proposed
levy as "unjust and unfair".
"People cannot afford another charge on top of the
money they are already forking out. Families are
already struggling to pay the Universal Social
Charge, levies, PRSI, increased fuel bills and
mortgage increases.
"It is also a nonsense to suggest that water charges
are about water conservation when almost half our
water is lost every year in Donegal through leaking
pipes due to years of under investment." |
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Members of Inishowen Sinn Féin, from
left, Cllr Jack Murray, Sean Ruddy, Peter Mullan,
Cllr Mary Kelly, Joe Murphy, Phil McFadden, Cllr
Ciaran McLaughlin, Deputy Pádraig MacLochlainn and
Paddy Doherty at the launch of their campaign
against water charges. |
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The Inishowen TD added:
"Councillors of all parties recently supported a
Donegal County Council motion calling on the
Government to abandon this inequitable taxation. We
now need to unite against this Government and state
loud and clear that the people of Donegal will not
stand for this." |
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