Hijpo wrote: » Why not block them? I don't want a water meter installed. I would do the same if sky rocked up to my house and tried to install a dish and extorted money from me to pay for the tv. They will dig up the ground, slap in a low grade meter box, put a dodgy meter in it and as probability would have it not repair the foot path properly. The water is still awful, the taxes we are paying that go towards the water will stay as they are, the bills will be wrong and will only ever increase as no matter what you do to conserve water IW have the ability to increase rates to make more money. Even how the company was set up and its installers makes the whole scheme an untrustworthy pharce.
Digital Society wrote: » But you and everyone in the estate will still be billed is the difference. Only difference is youll get charged full whack excluding your allowances for kids etc. which i assume these protestors didnt fill in. Are you trying to say you think they just wont bill you if you make it hard for them to install meters?
Digital Society wrote: » Will they not just be sent estimated bills anyway? Also im sure they havent applied for their allowance so they will get charged full amount. Whats the point in stopping them? Surely the only way to protest is not pay the bill. Anyone know what benefit there is in blocking them?
Hijpo wrote: » How will they get the money from my account, in fairness they sent the details to the wrong house to begin with and my sister got her sent to our parents house. I might consider paying if I thought for one second it wouldn't be a big cock up by a private company, set up in a gangster fashion forcing me to pay for a service Im already contributing to.
ROCKMAN wrote: » Is the fact that Irish Water pulled back and stopped installing meters unusual or have they done this or been forced to do this in a lot of other estates around the country? Does anyone know ? If it is an unusual action on the part of Irish Water,does anyone know why or what was different in Abbey Park ? Did the providing of proof of the Semi -Private Status of Irish Water by the residents play a major part in their withdrawal ?
Digital Society wrote: » Two possibilities. You'll pay or you'll have your water cut off. The water company couldnt give a ****e about where the letter went. Dont get me wrong. I'm as pissed off about it as anyone. In fact i can guarantee i'm more pissed off than 90% of people but i just don't see what the point in this is. If they had a clear aim i would probably even support them out there but they just seem to be delaying the inevitable. People usually protest with a realistic aim as in get a pension or get redundancy or boycott somewhere.
reni10 wrote: » It seems like an awful waste of money to buy and install meters for every property in Ireland, why don't they just base it on the type of house and apply a flat rate? So 3 bed semi is €200 a year and 4 bed detached 250 etc. They will probably get the same amount of money without the expense of buying, installing, reading, maintaining and replacing meters!
Nearly two-thirds of OECD countries already meter more than 90% of single-family houses
Harry Palmr wrote: » You'd think water meters were a cruel and unusual punishment rather than the norm in a developed country.http://www.oecd.org/environment/resources/1934075.pdf from 1999
Wanderer2010 wrote: » Im actually fully behind the protests at Ferrybank
fiachr_a wrote: » So am I, imagine paying for water in a place called Waterford!
mooseknunkle wrote: » Its going to be some craic when they start to install them in Lisduggan,Larchville,Ballybeg!
Contractors carrying out maintenance work for @WaterfordCounci had to leave Lisduggan area as residents thought they were from Irish Water.
Sully wrote: » Lots of rumours been floating around over the last few months, the above isn't the only case of mistaken identity. Why are a small selection in various areas that bothered if they install meters that they go to all the trouble of abusing both physically and verbally the people who are actually working and making a living? There still getting billed regardless of whether they have a meter or not and I somehow doubt if they get a bill there going to just sigh and pay up? It's ignorant and thuggish, scummy behaviour the way workers are being treated for doing a job they are being paid to do so they can make a living and contribute to their local economy and the broader economy too. It's taken a court case to slap some protesters on the wrist.
