Sorry Keith A, no idea what he is on about. I am still trying to work this one of his out from the "best type of Government" thread:

"water taxes, which had been greeted with huge nation protests (totally unprecedented in Ireland) are being debated a year later (so far they have only been watered down (pun intended) and it is hopeful that they have been abandoned altogether and those (about 70who have paid them 61 per cent end of the third billing cycle, 55 per cent at the end of the second cycle and 44 per cent at the end of the first billing cycle), will be recompensed – people-power
Jim Carroll