Sinn Féin is claiming that the company currently installing water metres in Dublin has told its contractors that work will stop at the end of this week.

Sinn Féin's environment spokesperson Brian Stanley has described today's package of measures on water charges as "an introductory offer, and a con job designed to lure people into agreeing to pay a charge that will inevitably be increased to much higher levels in years to come".

A Sinn Féin TD has today revealed that Sinn Féin has procedures in place since the early 1990s in relation to child protection.

Sinn Féin spokesperson on environment, community & local government Brian Stanley has announced that he intends to introduce a bill that will reverse the household charge.