Latest: TD Mattie McGrath hopes 'bizarre' water charge refund cheques won't bounce

Latest: An Independent TD has labelled the water charge refunds as "farcical in the extreme".

Update 11:45am: An Independent TD has labelled the water charge refunds as "farcical in the extreme".

"It's bizarre. Obviously people paid the money and then they scrapped the charges. In any method of fairness they had to give it back but it's farcical in the extreme," Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath said.