FREETV wrote: » Nonsense, so you are saying that Ronan is lying and that I am also making things up? Everybody that I know buys bottled water for drinking, making tea, coffee and even cooking because of the foul taste and smell.
Irish Water has said it will not use someone's PPS number to chase a customer for any unpaid bills. The utility added it is only allowed to use a PPS number to make sure people are only claiming the proper allowances.
FREETV wrote: » Discolored brown water safe to drink, methinks not and I will believe it when I see it, smell it and taste the water after Irish Water upgrades the system and there is an improvement because I believe that it will never happen. It is just a quango, jobs for the boys and part of the cronyism of Enda and Company.
_Kaiser_ wrote: » So now it seems IW are saying they won't use PPS numbers to chase unpaid bills: Now maybe it's just me, but they do seem increasingly desperate to try and convince us that signing up for this nonsense is nothing to worry about. Have em on the run I reckon :P
BoJack Horseman wrote: » You've been told several times already that if your water is not fit to consume, you don't have to pay. You just register for the waste water part.
Leroy42 wrote: » What do you expect them to do? Ban you family from coming over to your house? Seriously, your Mam actually raised that query with IW? What if they tell her no, she can't do that? If they have to deal with silly questions like that no wonder they are no getting back to people in time
Little CuChulainn wrote: » Right. So you hated the old system and the new one. What is your alternative to IW or the local councils? Why do people have this strange fear that your pps is like your soul or something. It's just a unique identifier.
Curly Judge wrote: » To be fair to the objectors, on this one occasion I agree with them. The Co Co version of drinkable is different from what other people think is drinkable. If they have a problem with their water infrastructure, and many of them do after years of paying themselves huge salaries and neglecting investment, their solution is to lace it with chlorine and kill all the bugs. They then present it to you and say "Well... it won't kill you". And they are right. It won't kill you and their arses are covered. But it may look awful it may taste awful and it may even smell like a buzzards crotch. If you are lucky it will just reek of chlorine. A business acquaintance of mine took me to lunch in a nice restaurant in Mulllingar recently. The waitress brought us a jug of tap water and I took a sip of it. He must have seen the look on my face because he called over the waitress and asked her to take it away and bring it back full of Ballygowan or some such. I presume it went on the bill and he had to pay extra for it. If Irish water can get to the bottom of this problem it will be work well done. Unfortunately I cannot see it happening while it's lead by the present CEO.
dxhound2005 wrote: » In this instance I prefer politicians who do not try to court popularity.
dxhound2005 wrote: » IIt will probably lead to many of them losing their seats. .
Grandpa Hassan wrote: » Except that tenants opposed to the charge will find themselves in a difficult position when their LL makes registering for the charge a condition of the lease. I want no come back on to me, so have already included that clause in leases that my tenants have signed. And will be checking to ensure they've registered. That is going to force a certain level of compliance by tenants I think
Smidge wrote: » You must be naive or else being purposely obtuse if you don't know the importance of a pps.
Little CuChulainn wrote: » I just don't believe that someone having your pps will leave you any more open than them having your name. If you can show me otherwise then I'm all ears.
gladrags wrote: » Another one of these "prove it to me" generalisations. Use common sense,and figure it out for yourself.
Smidge wrote: » Fair play to you so. You hand over your pps to anyone who asks for it. I'll keep mine to myself though.
Little CuChulainn wrote: » You don;t have to prove it. Just throw out an example of how it can be used in a way your name and address couldn't.
Curly Judge wrote: » They might hack into your pharmacists computer and steal your prescription tablets or find out you had hemorrhoids? :rolleyes:
masculinist wrote: » In the end , politicians are always courting popularity. In this instance the people they are courting popularity with are the bureaucrats in the EU, IMF and of course people like you who do not represent the people who got off their arses and marched, who do not represent the will of the people, the people who are almost universally opposed to water charges. You might feel comfortable in this little eco system internet bubble if someone agrees with you but this little internet eco system is not representative of the wider Irish internet either. Anyway I'm switching off notifications for this thread now. It's all been said already.
gladrags wrote: » OK What is your PPS number?
Little CuChulainn wrote: » That's the best you can do?
keno-daytrader wrote: » I thought it was pretty good
Little CuChulainn wrote: » Maybe if I wasn't posting under a made up name.
