Fine Gael to seek legal advice over water charges

Fine Gael is to attempt to use fresh legal advice to object to a committee’s recommendations to fully scrap water charges and abandon the metering of homes.

A final sign-off on an Oireachtas Committee report on the funding of the future of water services has now been delayed to allow for more advice to be sought and questions to be answered.

A war of words has broken out between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil over the final report from the committee.