Refuse charges - Waste of time hatching a deal

REFUSE charges. Refuse charges. It depends on how you pronounce it.

Either way, the issue of who pays for what and how they pay remains a contentious issue that refuses to go away, although the — hopefully recycled — can has been kicked down the road.

The last-minute deal hatched between the Government and Fianna Fáil says more about the lack of appetite for a general election than representing any serious attempt to solve the problem of collection charges.