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05th Feb 2015

Video: Two thirds of the money paid to Irish Water came from your motor tax

We can barely believe this

Eric Lalor

We can barely believe this.

In a meeting today between the Public Accounts Committee and representatives from the Department of Environment some startling revelations came to light about Irish Water.

Irish Water received a grant of €439m  from the government in 2014 and is also expected to receive €399m and €479m for this year and next year respectively.

Now try to not get too hot and bothered here lads, but then the committee heard that two thirds of this money came from motor tax payments. Here’s a video of the events that occurred at the meeting:

TD Sean Fleming can barely believe it and neither can we.

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Irish Water