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Sammy Bottles Out

Mark Devenport | 12:10 UK time, Tuesday, 4 March 2008

Not so long ago he was campaigning against the vast quantity of paper generated at the Assembly. Now Sammy has it in for the bottled water. He has joined together with his party colleague Jim Wells in backing a motion which "notes the environmental impact of using bottled water and calls upon the Assembly Commission to end the use of bottled water at committee meetings and Assembly functions, recognising that tap water in Northern Ireland is safe, drinkable and economic; and believes it is important for the Assembly to set an example in reducing the waste involved in bottling and transporting bottled water."

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  • 1.
  • At 04:12 PM on 04 Mar 2008,
  • RJ wrote:

Sammy Wilson's right. I wouldn't be too happy paying water rates if tap water wasn't drinkable. It was my only comfort during the past two days of vomiting and diarrhoea and I have nothing but praise for the stuff.

Besides, bottled water is for ponces. It's drunk by the sort of people who read the Ulster Tatler but are never in it, or the sort of people who live in Lisburn but hang around in Belfast and want to look cosmopolitan.

  • 2.
  • At 09:37 PM on 08 Mar 2008,
  • Martin wrote:

I agree with Sammy. If the NIO spend £33,000 a year what is the total bill? £500,000 Surely Peter Robinson could spend this money on front line services....

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