The Sinn Féin President has accused the Labour Party of playing politics with the water charges issue.
It comes after reports today suggest the party will demand the abolition of the proposed 50 euro standing charge at this week's Cabinet meeting.
Fine Gael and Labour have been at loggerheads over the issue. Fine Gael has promised we'll know the amount we'll have to pay for water before the local and European elections. While Labour's leader Eamon Gilmore has indicated it could take longer.
Deputy Gerry Adams says it's just another tax.
“When Fianna Fail introduced it first, labour opposed it so they’re coming a bit late to it now. We opposed water charges being imposed in the North; we stood up to the Tory govt in London.
“Part of what we’re saying to people is that austerity isn’t the way to go forwards and that includes all of these flat taxes, all of these corrosive taxes, eroding people’s morale, sending people overseas, sending people to the dole queues," Adams said.
