Idbatterim wrote: » The hysteria is hilarious!
Old boardie22 wrote: » Rubbish into the rivers..? Don't know where your living... No I won't think of it as paying double waste charge.. Fake environmentalism.. Not the common man chopping down the worlds forrests. Not the common man dumping toxic chemicals and even nuclear waste in the rivers and seas. Not the common man poisoning the land and our food with toxic chemicals...
Old boardie22 wrote: » So tell me.. Why are we paying for it again..? And all the bollox talk about tax.. If I here any more ill crack up.. It the richest people on the planet not paying their taxes, with their hedge funds and so called charitable foundations (meaning, where they hide their money from the tax man). Also they're the biggest recipients from the banker bailouts, even though they weren't owed a penny, Again. We pay for it... Sorry. Someone earning 250.000 a year is not rich..
Old boardie22 wrote: » We live in a country that bloody rains constantly and they can't have resovoirs for catching the bloody stuff..? They do in England..
Old boardie22 wrote: » It's disgusting plane and simple.. Next we'll be getting charged for breathing air..
It may well be hilarious to anyone without a sense of empathy for people at the pin of their collar. €400 odd is a days pay to some and it is more than a weeks pay to many more. I was talking to a pensioner and he finds nothing funny about it at all.
My Grandfather got a letter from Irish Water to inform he had a leak when I checked the meter 1444m3 had gone through in the 4 months since it had been installed, that's €6500 worth of water! It was down to the Ball Valve's in the toilet & the Heating tank, water flowing away to drain un-noticed No joke there - but thankfully sorted now
Timberrrrrrrr wrote: » You know how rainfall works right? And if things in England work so well (same rainfall as us i would guess) why do they have a hosepipe ban and drought warnings most summers?
Old boardie22 wrote: » Erm... But they still don't charge for it do they..? A country with far higher population that obviously uses more water. Maybe the bans to stop the reserves being used up..???.??? From The reservoirs like..? I think so... "You know how rain works right?" That's a good one, no, I thought it magically falls from the sky
Little CuChulainn wrote: » You think the fat cats are chopping down the trees and dumping stuff into rivers? It most certainly is the common man, the working man. They may be doing it under orders but they are still the ones doing it and keeping their mouth shut. You're paying for it because it is no longer being paid for out of the main exchequer. If all it took to supply a country with water was the building of resevoirs, everyone could make their own. You're simply ignoring the treatment, distribution and waste disposal aspects. Ever try going diving? You know those breathing apartus aren't free don't you. It's not the air they charge you for, it's the handiness of having it in an easily accessible tank that fits on your back.
obezyana wrote: » Do they not charge for water through the council tax? and their council tax is steep enough.
Old boardie22 wrote: » You mean like ours always was..? They don't charge seperately do they? With some criminal new "water tax"
Old boardie22 wrote: » Hardly comparible now is it..? An fun activity vs human need And correct me if I'm wrong but.. Haven't we already paid for the inferstructure already..? And what about the fact that IW like most water company's are payed by private firms to dump fluoride in our water..? Not the other way around.. So don't give me some crappy analogy that because when I go diving I have to pay for the privilege, compared to paying for the most basic human right of having water.. It was always covered. Now suddenly it's not...
You vote for a blueshirt government you get blueshirt policies.
Idbatterim wrote: » what like trying to plug the gap? feel free to vote for one of the other joke parties that will lead us down the path of ruin again! Whos going to pay for everything, the rich is it? The .1% of us, if the number is even that... or is it the rich earning over E32,800 paying 52% income tax? FG are not perfect, but they are a hell of a lot better than the alternative, had any of the other parties got in, we would be in a far worse position than now!
Recondite49 wrote: » It's one thing to say Revenue have the info - but if as we already discussed you refuse to fill in the form, that means Irish Water won't be able to know where you are, so a court summons is made more difficult. .
We live in a country that bloody rains constantly and they can't have resovoirs for catching the bloody stuff..? They do in England..
On April 1st, 2014, a 2% increase (roughly £8) was announced, pushing up the average UK's household bill for water and sewerage to £393 per year. Previously, on the 1st of April 2013, a rise of 3.5% on the average water bill was implemented across the UK. This saw a typical annual bill for water and sewerage rise from £375 in 2012 to £388 in 2013.
The majority of people are charged a yearly water rate which covers the domestic water supply and associated costs such as maintaining water quality. [/b]A minority of people have a water meter instead, which in some cases may prove a cheaper alternative.[/b]
wow wwhat a post, how can one say that fg have done better that any oter party, they are not, as labour are as good as them, because fg cannot function without them
zerks wrote: » You should see the size of the stand they have at the Ploughing Championships,who's paying for that? Another waste of money as the vast majority attending have their own wells or are on group water schemes.
animaal wrote: » There'll be various categories of people with waivers from water charges. It'll be interesting to see whether there'll be a cap on the amount of water covered by this waiver. Or will those of us paying have to watch our usage, while those not paying get to use all they like...
Ogham wrote: » You should see the size of the Bord Gais Theatre (Cost over 4 million to name that). ANother state owned utility wasting our money.
Banjo String wrote: » Didn't they acquire it through nama? Wasn't that Harry Crosbys venture to begin with?
seamus wrote: » I'm not saying that obezyana is screwed, he may as well pay up. But if you're planning on doing this kind of thing, you need to be wary of your trail across the web.
eeepaulo wrote: » Im Spartacus going to remove obezyana's meter
SOR2010 wrote: » My Grandfather got a letter from Irish Water to inform he had a leak when I checked the meter 1444m3 had gone through in the 4 months since it had been installed, that's €6500 worth of water! It was down to the Ball Valve's in the toilet & the Heating tank, water flowing away to drain un-noticed No joke there - but thankfully sorted now
Johngoose wrote: » How does it work for tenants renting a house, who will possibly be moving house in the next year or two? Seems daft that people renting a house would commit to any charge long-term?
