Households must pay for water meters.

If true - thats another bill then for every householder in the country - on top of their already household tax.
Aren't FG and Labour great!

You might even have to pay a rental fee for the meter - after you have paid for it to be installed?

Talk about really making you pay again and again!

Part of the said (long) article:

Levying the cost of water meters on homeowners will increase the pressure on Phil Hogan, the environment minister, whose job it is to “sell” water charges to the public. Hogan has struggled to convince homeowners to sign up to the new household charge, the precursor to a property tax. Of the estimated 1.72m homes eligible to pay, just 890,000 had signed up by the end of last week.

Yesterday, Niall Collins, the Fianna Fail environment spokesman, said the government should have been honest with voters before last year’s general election if it intended them to pay for their meters as well as for water. “This amounts to the latest instalment of deceit and deception by the government parties in introducing their suite of back-door charges,” he said.

Joe Higgins, the Socialist party leader, said the charges for meters would “just further intensify” the opposition to the household and water levies. He said estimates by the Commission on Taxation and the ESRI suggest the two levies could exceed €1,000 a year when fully applied to the average home.

The department said it would be up to a future water regulator whether to allow homeowners to pay a monthly rental charge instead of an annual fee for their meter. Each household is to be given a “generous” free annual allocation of water, with charges being imposed only once they exceed that allocation.

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By the way, was at the Galway protest yesterday and what was shown on RTE was NOTHING like what really was happening there.

There was over 2000+ protesters up there and they while loud at the front, all except for a few less than ten, were of peaceful nature - but that didn't stop RTE from clever editing and portraying the whole lot as a bunch of thugs!
...When in fact the thugs were inside the building on their political podiums.

Tom Cruise wrote: »

Surely as a consumer i have a right not to partake of their water?
Who needs a bath anyway when i have the river Boyne nearby.

Have you seen the state of the Boyne lately in parts!

Jesus these cunts won't be happy until the arse is falling from our trousers. They say the Household Charge is paying for "local services", hmm let me see, we pay for our bins, they're making us pay for water, we pay for the fire brigade and only for the tidy towns committee in my area this place would be in a right mess. Plus we pay extortionate road tax!

So what the fuck are we paying for? The roads are in shite, there's no library in my area and the local school is falling apart.

Gombeens the lot of them, they can tell Merkel and Sarkosy to fuck right off!

MickySticks wrote: »

Jesus these cunts won't be happy until the arse is falling from our trousers. They say the Household Charge is paying for "local services", hmm let me see, we pay for our bins, they're making us pay for water, we pay for the fire brigade and only for the tidy towns committee in my area this place would be in a right mess. Plus we pay extortionate road tax!

So what the fuck are we paying for? The roads are in shite, there's no library in my area and the local school is falling apart.

Gombeens the lot of them, they can tell Merkel and Sarkosy to fuck right off!

They won't tell them to do anything.
They will yet again just do what they are told by their German and French masters like good little lapdogs.

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Your bill for the meters per household will range from €300 upward then.
On TOP of this, you will be charged a possible yearly 'rental' fee for the meter!

So in total, you will be paying for your meter to be installed, you will be paying your water fee charge (with VAT), you will be paying for the rental fee of the meter (with VAT), you will be paying for your yearly household charge, you will be pay and paying over and over again for household stuff till your pockets are near bled dry of every last cent, by the Irish government.

Don't forget to thank your nearest FG and Labour representative and supporter for all this generous robbing of your money!

As someone who hasn't paid the household charge I won't be paying this in my 2nd property which is connected to the council mains, incidentally I have also not paid the NPPR (Second home scam tax) either. I just avoid paying and let some other fool pay if they want but I am not. Once government tax or private debt collectors cross the threshold onto my private property to collect such monies then there will be big trouble for them. I am not paying to bailout the friends of Fianna Fail who ruined the country.

I already entombed my mains connection under 2 metres of rebar re-inforced concrete in 2010 after the 1st big freeze to ensure I would have water during the cold snap as the incompetent council workers rose the pipe near the surface when they did it for the shut off valve where it then froze, I sank it down a huge depth and installed my own shut off valve inside my property and then sealed it all over with concrete and rebar, so if Phil Hogan wants to meter me he better have a real good kango or rockbreaker for starters, and a tow truck because for good measure I have parked an old banger right over where the connection used to be!

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

...I won't be voting for FG or Labour next time around and look forward immensely to a politician from either party opening the gate to our front garden.

Lets be real, they won't show their faces around ANY homes for months, if not years to come.
They will just send out their localised ground party members to do the door to door dirty work, if any needs to be done.