[Bullseye1]

Main headline on today's The Sunday Times. Link to story here.
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/h...9.html?m=false

So not only will you be responsible as a householder to pay for your water but also for the expensive installation of a water meter. Yet again your local authority has let you down through bad planning and development.

Again ask yourself where did all the money go, the millions paid in levies. Why weren't developers forced during planning and construction process to provide meters.

Estimates from government is that it will cost €300-€350 but experts which thr government have none say it will be closer to €500-€600.

[Biggins]

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!

[A_Sober_Paddy]

So what services is this household charge covering?

[AboutTwoFiddy]

Well I'm glad the government aren't organising these meters, chances are by the time they've had a report complied and paid consultants and all their mates they'd end up paying €2-3k for the meters.

At least this way we can tell them to shag off and to stick their meters up their bottoms. In fairness if we were to meter what comes out of the governments holes and tax them on it we'd be out of austerity pretty pronto.

[Logical Fallacy]

Originally Posted by A_Sober_Paddy

So what services is this household charge covering?

None, it covers your right to pay money because you own a house.

Marvelous system.

[Biggins]

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.

[BackScrub]

We'll rue the day we gave thick Enda, fascist Phil, slick Leo and absent Eamonn these jobs.

[trooney]

Originally Posted by A_Sober_Paddy

So what services is this household charge covering?

The service provided by high paid local authority managerial staff

[Born to Die]

Refuse to wash, that will teach them.

[Owen_S]

This will probably spark the revival of the old water pump.

[BackScrub]

Originally Posted by Owen_S

This will probably spark the revival of the old water pump.

We've had enough parish pump politics.

[Tom Cruise]

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.

[AboutTwoFiddy]

Originally Posted by Biggins

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.

But of course, what would you expect Biggins? RTE is controlled by the government, if they step out of line they get their funding cut. Do you really think they're going to p1ss of the government? Not a hope.

[Freddie59]

And, of course, the people provided with free housing by the Government will get them free of charge. And all so that we can continue to bankroll high Public Sector wages/"entitlements". What a country.

[galwayrush]

They can repossess my water meter when i don't pay for it..