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Water meters delayed till 2016.

  • 31-08-2012 08:58PM
    #1
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,857 ✭✭✭✭


    In todays Irish Daily Mail and Sun Newspapers...Phil Hogan hasnt got a hope in hell of getting the country fitted out with water meters by end of 2013.

    County Councils dont know where half of the external stopcock locations are,and housing estates built from mid 1940s to mid 1960s will probably not have meters installed due to the mains water pipe configurations.The CCs dont have actual plans or maps of water pipelines for most of the counties.

    According to a member of DCC,even if things did run smoothly,it would be Spring of 2016 before all domestic meters would be installed.

    It will also cost at least 500 million euro for the goverment to install them too.

    Phil Hogan has completely under estimated the amount of time,work and money involved to do this,according to sources in DCC and in the water metering business.


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  • #2
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    Some good news at last....


  • #3
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,857 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    Just an update to this thread.......


    Irish Water came out yesterday and said that they will be very lucky to have the water meters installed by 2016...yes 2016.
    No one knows where all the stop cocks are located,as there are no actual plans of the water pipe infastructure in Ireland.

    Phil Hogan is going to try and force a flat rate on EVERYONE from 2014 though,so it will be like a re-run of the 100 euro HHC again,but this time it will be more.
    Even though Phil Hogan prommised that nobody would pay anything till all the meters were installed.


    So yet again Phil Hogan has made a major fcuk up and opened his gob,before getting the actual facts right.



    A few words that may crop up later on down the line,for poor auld Big Phil.

    Phil Hogan...Shovel.....Dig.....Big Hole......Resign.


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