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    #62
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Just thought I'd compile a list off all the extras we should expect with our water charges!

    Regular arguments with your family about water usage.
    Stress due to water usage.
    Anxiety due to water charges...... Anyway you get the message.

    I think the larger sometimes less well off families are the ones that will suffer most.And I really do think that 'occupancy' of house-hold should be a MAJOR factor when calculating bills.

    You're being very sensationalist.

    I've being paying water charges for the last 15 years, ok, it's only about 35 euros a month, but still no one thinks twice about usage. It's treated no different to electricity usage. You use it as you need it and are sensible about not wasting it.

    Purchase water efficient washing machine and dish washer, use the quick flush button when you take a piss, don't leave water running for no reason, don't stand under the shower daydreaming for 10 mins, and so on


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    #63
    Gael23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,177 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    I think the 30,000 L allowance is far too low. It won't even cover what you need as a minimum amount every day


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    #64
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    We will all be going round smelling like sh1te


    Some do that already. God knows what it will be like then.

    Neeeeeeeeeever getting on a bus once the charges come in.


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    #65
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    jester77 wrote: »
    You're being very sensationalist.

    I've being paying water charges for the last 15 years, ok, it's only about 35 euros a month, but still no one thinks twice about usage. It's treated no different to electricity usage. You use it as you need it and are sensible about not wasting it.

    Purchase water efficient washing machine and dish washer, use the quick flush button when you take a piss, don't leave water running for no reason, don't stand under the shower daydreaming for 10 mins, and so on

    The what?


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    #66
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Just thought I'd compile a list off all the extras we should expect with our water charges!

    Regular arguments with your family about water usage.
    Stress due to water usage.
    Anxiety due to water charges...... Anyway you get the message.

    I think the larger sometimes less well off families are the ones that will suffer most.And I really do think that 'occupancy' of house-hold should be a MAJOR factor when calculating bills.
    On a positive note, less people will drown their families in the bath as it becomes more expensive.


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    #67
    thirteen.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 609 ✭✭✭thirteen.


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Aye, so a decent single Mum with four kids, who showers! who feeds! who washes their uniforms etc etc........ WILL end up paying 'possibly' 5 times as much as a young couple(both working)eating out every third night or so etc etc....
    I say FCUK OFF to that SERIOUSLY:confused:

    Paying five times as much for usimg five times the amount of water, seems fair enough to me.


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    #68
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Irish water are now wanting the child free allowance lowered, Showing their profiteering ways more and more. Wonder when people will wake up and realise this company will not be fit for purpose.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/irish-water-showing-contempt-for-dail-committee-after-no-information-submitted-on-charges-30398328.html

    More and More dodging questions.


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    #69
    ZeroThreat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭ZeroThreat


    You pay for what you use. Not my problem if some women are walking incubators.....


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    #70
    Ger Byrne 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭Ger Byrne 1


    just another tax


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    #71
    ZeroThreat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭ZeroThreat


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Irish water are now wanting the child free allowance lowered, Showing their profiteering ways more and more. Wonder when people will wake up and realise this company will not be fit for purpose.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/irish-water-showing-contempt-for-dail-committee-after-no-information-submitted-on-charges-30398328.html

    More and More dodging questions.

    It'll probably be sold to the Chinese sooner or later...


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    #72
    FREETV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭FREETV


    Reformed Character wrote: »
    A diatribe of incorrect and scaremongering statements.
    We don't already pay for it and no link has ever been found between fluoridation of water and increased rates of cancer.

    Actually we do pay for it as it is collected from general taxation already.

    It has been linked if you do the research.
    Aspartame consumption is lethal over a number of years too.


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    #73
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    ZeroThreat wrote: »
    It'll probably be sold to the Chinese sooner or later...
    Any particular one? My local was closed last year.


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    #74
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    I wonder if we'll be seeing any rationing before the charges come in to prevent stockpiling. Wouldn't surprise me if it did


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    #75
    Gael23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,177 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    P_1 wrote: »
    I wonder if we'll be seeing any rationing before the charges come in to prevent stockpiling. Wouldn't surprise me if it did

    Nothing they can do will stop that from happening


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    #76
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    FREETV wrote: »
    Anybody that will pay twice for a natural resource is utterly foolish.
    Here come the paid shills again after I have written this.
    The water out of the tap here is dreadful.
    It smells bad and is undrinkable and I live near Drogheda.
    If you want to be fleeced and out of pocket citizens then more fool you.
    By the way cancer has increased exponentially since Fluoride was introduced to tap water here.

    Everything smells bad near Drogheda


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    #77
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    ardle1 wrote: »
    Just thought I'd compile a list off all the extras we should expect with our water charges!

    Regular arguments with your family about water usage.
    Stress due to water usage.
    Anxiety due to water charges...... Anyway you get the message.

    I think the larger sometimes less well off families are the ones that will suffer most.And I really do think that 'occupancy' of house-hold should be a MAJOR factor when calculating bills.

    Just pay your fcuking water charges and stop moaning about it.

    Water is a resource, compared to our European counterparts we're the wierd ones for not having to pay a charge for usage.


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    #78
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    FREETV wrote: »
    Bottled water for a shower. :D
    I am looking in to a rain water system and installing it myself for showering in the near future.
    The problem with most people in this country is that they just take the hit and accept it instead of using some initiative and sticking up for themselves.
    I am talking generally and not having a go at you.

    I am a normal person however though when one isn't given a vote and a choice and you are forced against your will to pay for water which is in abundance in Ireland then one knows something is wrong with the way this country is being run.

    The leaks in old pipes and implementation of fluoride are the problems.
    The normal people are the ones who are protesting about water meters and impending water charges.
    Do you think that it is right in your opinion for the public to be screwed until the pips squeak to pay all of these extra taxes including bank charges?

    I hate to break it to you but rainwater harvesting done properly on a domestic scale is more expensive and less green than the mains supply


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    #79
    Gael23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,177 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    I was listening to an ad on the radio a few days ago for a bowel cancer screening test where you would send the stool test back in the post.
    I know that only needs a smear but thought after what not put the whole stool in a parcel and send it off. Would save a hell of a lot of water


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    #80
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,199 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Since this charge is nothing more than a revenue raising exercise.....

    A flat charge per household should be charged based on size.

    As it stands, I heard that if water is conserved, the price per unit will go up.

    A flat charge would have saved billions on meter installation, maintenance, and upkeep. And also would lessen the stress of having to turn on the washing machine and so on. The costs are not about conservation, they are about raising revenue to upgrade the system, and when that's done, it's into the Exchequer as a tax.

    You have the choice in the UK to have a meter or not. We should be given the same choice.

    The free allowance for children is open to major abuse, for instance, if it is based on
    Children's allowance data. Many of those kids could be living abroad. If it is based on PPSN, you do not have to be living in a house to have a PPSN!

    The cost of this company is astronomical. But it will be sold off eventually, and then the water butts will become the new gold bars.


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    #81
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    Just pay your fcuking water charges and stop moaning about it.

    Water is a resource, compared to our European counterparts we're the wierd ones for not having to pay a charge for usage.

    Ouuuuuuuu look at you, all tough an sh!t innit...
    you is payin commercial water rates innit, and you is jealous and sh!t innit:cool:


    Btw weird is spelt-tid like I spelt it innit!;)


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