Martin won’t discipline brother over house levy

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will not take disciplinary action against his brother, a prominent city councillor, for failing to pay the household charge.

Fianna Fáil policy is that people should pay the €100 charge given that it is the law of the land.

However, earlier this week, Seán Martin, a long-serving councillor and former lord mayor of Cork, admitted he had not paid the charge. He also said he had no plans to do so, describing it as a “divisive and socially unfair” brushstroke measure that had “no respect to income” or people’s circumstances.