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<title type="html" ><![CDATA[SIPTU calls for suspension of ‘unfair’ household charge]]></title>
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<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[The country’s largest trade union said that the €100 household charge penalises low and middle income families and called on the government to suspend it. ]]></summary>
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<author><name>Christine Bohan</name>
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<title type="html" ><![CDATA[Column: Why the household charge is a ‘gateway tax’]]></title>
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<summary type="html" ><![CDATA[Socialist TD Clare Daly is suggesting that it might be time to revive the Irish-coined concept of boycott instead of complying with the €100 household levy.]]></summary>
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<author><name>Clare Daly</name>
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