Sir, - If proof were needed of the disastrous mess into which the Minister for the Environment has thrown the funding of local government, it must be the plight of those paying into group water schemes. At a stroke, the Minister has created an apartheid of water supply.
An old-fashioned word seems best suited to summarising the situation - unfair. It is simply unfair for those in group water schemes to have to fund the supply of free water to others. - Yours, etc.,
Green Party candidate for Galway West, Presentation Road, Galway.