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Irish Water rates cut leaves council with financial emergency

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  • 01-11-2019 8:44am
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    shinzon
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    From WLRFM Facebook page last night

    Big news tomorrow in Waterford will be this:
    Councillors have just been informed Waterford Council is facing a financial emergency after being told of a potential cut of €3.3 million in rates payable by Irish Water.
    If this goes ahead there will be a massive loss of revenue that would force Waterford City and County Council to cut expenditure on Roads, Festivals, Arts and Community Grants - and maybe more!
    We’ll have the latest on #wlr news and current affairs in morning. #waterford #politics

    Shin


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    Wanderer78
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    Ah shur just privitise it, and watch the money flow in


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    Harry Palmr
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    Public ownership is working for Waterford!


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    Wanderer78
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    Harry Palmr wrote:
    Public ownership is working for Waterford!


    Would privatising it work any better, defunding public services that some wish to privatise is common practice


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    Harry Palmr
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    Nope, public ownership in Ireland just means you're getting shafted by the state rather than private "enterprise"


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    hardybuck
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Nope, public ownership in Ireland just means you're getting shafted by the state rather than private "enterprise"

    Public ownership means a portion of society will pay for others, and all will continue to waste the 'free' resource.


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    Wanderer78
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    hardybuck wrote: »
    Public ownership means a portion of society will pay for others, and all will continue to waste the 'free' resource.

    a perfect response in fairness, theres no easy solution here, but id think id rather keep it in public ownership, but with conservation methods in place, including metering
    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Nope, public ownership in Ireland just means you're getting shafted by the state rather than private "enterprise"


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    BBM77
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    Councillors also blocked any increase in property tax because they were afraid of losing votes. So councillors are making decisions on what gets them votes instead of what is best for the city and county. This fixed property tax rate has been detrimental to services for years now.


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