Politics of expediency on water charges flushed a cleaner future down the Swannee

Irish Water needs €5.5bn up to 2021 and that is only to start, but the funds now will have to come from the same purse as health and education, writes Gerard Howlin

IF FIANNA Fáil gets into government, water charges will haunt it.

Yesterday’s report from the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), painted a picture of the country’s kitchen sink as a silage pit. Truth is that regardless of whether charges were successfully introduced or not, the same legacy issues would still be outstanding.