Parity call for group water scheme payers

While people in towns and cities have been campaigning against paying water charges, those in the country on Group Water Schemes and those who have “sunk wells at their own expense” will have to be treated equally in any removal of water charges, according to Independent TD Sean Canney.
As a member of the Independence Alliance who are negotiating with Fine Gael this week he says getting “parity for the people who have paid their water charges for decades” is one of his priorities.
“They are the forgotten people in all of this controversy over water charges.

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