Up to 200 activists attended a meeting in Dublin at the weekend urging a mass refusal to pay planned household charges," writes Niamh Griffin.
We need to build a mass campaign, so people know they are not on their own,” head of the Association of Combined Residents Associations Malachy Steenson said. “Our members have said they won’t pay.”
Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan announced a temporary household charge of €100 a year last July aimed at raising €160 million.
Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins TD said he believed people of all political persuasions and none would refuse to pay.