Truth hurts as parents pay price for water

With uncertainty over children’s free water quotas, parents of over 18s living at home face a bigger shock, writes Political Editor Mary Regan

OF ALL the hostages to fortune in Enda Kenny’s opening comments to the Irish people as Taoiseach, the “Paddy likes to know the truth” line is the one that comes back to haunt him with increased frequency.

It’s a promise that is going to ring increasingly hollow to parents in the year running up to the next general election — planned in 2016 — when they realised that bills for domestic water look a lot different to what they expected.