Water charges vital to tax base and to supporting those on low incomes

We all need to accept we must pay more, not less... and ensure, as an environmental policy, that those who use pay, writes Gerard Howlin

The definition of Fine Gael is that they do the right thing. Never mind that you don’t believe it; that is how they self-identify.

They are not Fianna Fáil, so the first proof, as they see it, is self-evident. They are the visceral opposite of Sinn Féin in every respect. You might be so rude as to point to slippage from those standards. But that’s the sort you are, begrudging, disrespectful.