The housing minister says he expects Fianna Fáil to support water charges in some sort - if that's the suggestion of an expert commission.

Simon Coveney says Fianna Fáil's plan to scrap charges entirely is just a "political position".

But he says the expert commission on water charges was set up on Fianna Fáil's insistence in the first place.

And if that commission recommends a system of charging, he believes Fianna Fáil should honour it: