Water charges protest Navan

Hope it ends at Damien English's office, he seems to have gone to ground along with his FG councillors. Me thinks FG will take a real hiding in the general election come what may.

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Is there anywhere that has the names of who voted for/against the reduction in LPT?

http://www.meath.ie/CountyCouncil/Meetings/MeathCountyCouncilMeetings/MeathCountyCouncilMeetings2014/

Look at the special finance minutes meeting September,2014 for the list of names.
Bad form by those councillors to vote for a tax that provides nothing in return, we still have to cut the grass on the open spaces

Within the minutes is this information of who voted against the reduction. Unfortunately Meath County Council don't put page numbers on their minutes but it is on page 4 and 5.

The proposed amendment to retain the basic rate of the Local Property Tax was carried following a roll call vote:
Look at the table beneath this and you will see who voted for no reduction (no change in the property tax).

For instance, it shows Mr W Forde as an independent councillor (recently elected under the banner of "Save Navan Hospital") voted to keep the rate unchanged and recently voted for the Water Charges. A touch of hypocrisy if you ask me.

Stroke Politics wrote: »

I find Damien so hard to understand, sometimes I wonder is English his first language. He's in real trouble for the next election - FG vote was 10% in the Navan LEA in the last local election....

Yeah, he was shocking, posture was all ove the place, defending the indefensible. Drinking quality water as he puts it but most of it goes in flushing toilets.

Our Cm3 charge for water is one of the most expensive in Europe and given time and like a lot of Government rhetoric we will hold top position. In my view our taxes already pay for this.

If as a minister indicated at the weekend on radio that studies show 40% of household drinking quality water is used for flushing toilets and that also equates to the 40% of water lost through leaking pipes, then why is there not an incentive scheme in place to harvest rainwater for flushing systems.

It is because they want your money, it is because they are not serious at all about saving water. It is because they want to flog it as a super quango utility company for a lot of money. Only by enshrining Irish Water in the Constitution will prevent it from being flogged to the highest bidder. Primary legislation to stop it being sold will only be circumvented by another piece of legislation to sell it. Trust no one especially this Shower!

I hear the deaf beast from Mayo is in town tomorrow evening at the New Grange Hotel.
Gardai doing a dry run closing off the roads so no anti water charge protestors can get near the fecker.

Between him and the witch on saturday they are certainly racking up the travel and expenses. Gardai must be creaming the overtime and rubbing their hands before Christmas.

Some amount of overtime these FG politicians are givig the Gardai. If they believe the people are behind them let them go to the country, Their mandate under the IMF ran off Dec 2013.

"Last night, a water charges protestor had to be removed from the bonnet of the Taoiseach's car as he attended a similar meeting in Sligo, and Garda chiefs in Meath were obviously adamant that that would not happen in Navan tonight. Barricades were erected on Church Hill, Ludlow Street and Bridge Street, with traffic diversions on Market Square and Timmons Hill, as Fine Gael public representatives and members from Meath and surrounding counties waited for the Taoiseach in the hotel. Some 40 uniformed gardai – including the armed unit and the traffic corp – are on standby, as well as a number of plain clothes gardai. Members of the public seeking to attend other functions in the hotel and attend local restaurants had to make their way through the garda barricades. There is massive increase in security around cabinet members since Saturday's incident in Dublin involving Tanaiste Joan Burton. However, gardai outnumbered the 40 or so protestors chanting on Church Hill and the eight on Bridge Street as the Taoiseach arrived. His car was whisked into the underground car park at the Newgrange Hotel and he did not encounter the protestors on Church Hill, having passed through the smaller Bridge Street gathering. Among those using a loudspeaker at the protest was Workers Party member, Seamus McDonagh. "