We need a politics to tell us frankly we cannot flush if we do not pay

Paying directly for water changes behaviour and by setting an example in one area, it points to better policy in others, writes Gerard Howlin

JUST as controversy about the strategic communications unit moves temporarily into the wings, though not off-stage, another looms. Water has replaced snow as the crux, but that’s less photogenic.

Don’t expect to see Leo peering down unflushed toilets, or arriving at the homes of the hard-pressed with Uisce Éireann-branded buckets of water to sluice, what thitherto was floating on the surface.