A Donegal Junior Minister says there needs to be a reasonable approach to water charges.
Joe McHugh says the Oireachtas committee on water needs to be given a chance to complete its work.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are at odds over the legality of scrapping the charges.
Minister of State Joe McHugh says there’s an energy in Fine Gael to reach a solution and avoid a possible election:
Meanwhile, in Sligo, the ‘blame game’ over whether Fianna Fail or Fine Gael was responsible for introducing water charges continues in Sligo/Leitrim between a local councillor and the constituency’s government TD.
Sligo Fianna Fail Councillor Tom MacSharry has this morning insisted it was Fine Gael who introduced the charges and says Fianna Fail campaigned, with others, for their abolition, before the last election.
He was responding to comments to Ocean Fm News yesterday by Fine Gael TD Tony McLoughlin who claimed Fianna Fail was set to introduce water charges when the EU troika was in Ireland to arrange a bailout for the country.
Deputy McLoughlin says it’s dishonest of Fianna Fail to now say it doesn’t support water charges when it was the party which introduced the charges.
But this is a stance Councillor MacSharry strongly disagrees with:
