The ULA TDs condemn the privatisation of Dublin City Council's waste collection service. Joan Collins TD (People Before Profit/United Left Alliance Dublin South Central) said:
Labour Leader Eamon Gilmore's announcement of the deferral of water charges from next January is prompted wholly by the party's fear of annihilation at the Local and Euro Parliament Elections in 2014. The absence of meters did not prevent the Labour / Fine Gael Coalition from introducing water charges in 1983 nor again their reintroduction in Dublin in 1994.