The Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes says people who
paid their water charges will have to be refunded if the charges are eventually
scrapped. The Dublin MEP says Ireland will be subject to EU fines and penalties
if it doesn’t find a way of making people pay for their consumption of water. However,
Mr Hayes says people should be entitled to a refund if a decision is made to
scrap the charges.

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Ireland will be subject to EU fines and penalties
if it doesn’t find a way of making people pay for their consumption of water.
That’s the view of the Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes who was speaking in the
European Parliament in Strasbourg. The Dublin MEP says that, under the EU’s Water
Framework directive, Ireland is obliged to charge people for their water and
that we can’t suspend water charges indefinitely.  

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