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    #3212
    papu
    Registered Users Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭papu


    hju6 wrote: »
    It will happen when it's sold off

    And the record has reset.

    These stock lines are getting boring.


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    #3213
    dashcamdanny
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭dashcamdanny


    hju6 wrote: »
    It will happen when it's sold off

    I dont like this as much as the next guy, but again, can you back up these claims? A link of some sorts maybe


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    #3214
    hju6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭hju6


    papu wrote: »
    And the record has reset.

    These stock lines are getting boring.

    Why else would a private company want your PPS no?


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    #3215
    hju6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭hju6


    I pointed this out earlier, worth a read
    hju6 wrote: »
    your right, Bord Gais seems to be a handy vehicle for selling state assets,

    "your Bord Gais Energy Sale – Was it a Bargain for Centrica ?
    Calendar March 26, 2014 | Posted by Money Guide
    As part of the disposal of state assets to try and pay off Ireland’s bank bailout debts – the sale of Bord Gais Energy has been agreed this week.

    The headlines say that Bord Gais Energy (BGE) is to be sold for €1.1 Billion to a consortium made up of UK company Centrica and 2 others – but how much is Centrica actually paying for the gas and electricity supply part of the business ?"
    http://www.moneyguideireland.com/bord-gais-energy-sell-off-was-it-a-bargain-for-centrica.html


    The Whitegate power station was only opened in December 2010 and cost Bord Gais €400m to develop . It provides power for 445,000 homes . To sell that off on it’s own for €150 million would seem cheap – but to throw in the whole energy supply part of the company too – seems like a very poor deal for the people of Ireland.

    Just to give a comparison – we were told that €50m was spent by Bord Gais on consultants in 2013 to help set up Irish Water – yet the state are selling off a fully operational profit making business with a valuable power station for just 3 times that amount !"


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    #3216
    Hijpo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    Phoebas wrote: »
    IW has no power to increase rates. That power lies with the CER.

    Nice one, and how are the CER commisioners appointed?


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    #3217
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    hju6 wrote: »
    Why else would a private company want your PPS no?

    A PPS number is a very valuable commodity for IW,that number basically has every bit of info about you attached to it.The selling of such info is big business these days and with a shedload of PPS numbers IW hold the keys to the kingdom.


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    #3218
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    zerks wrote: »
    A PPS number is a very valuable commodity for IW,that number basically has every bit of info about you attached to it.The selling of such info is big business these days and with a shedload of PPS numbers IW hold the keys to the kingdom.

    But giving someone your pps doesn't give them access to that info. All they have is what you give them.


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    #3219
    hju6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭hju6


    zerks wrote: »
    A PPS number is a very valuable commodity for IW,that number basically has every bit of info about you attached to it.The selling of such info is big business these days and with a shedload of PPS numbers IW hold the keys to the kingdom.

    Exactly, that's why it's unwise to give it to private companies in exchange for a few buckets of water


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    #3220
    mynameismud
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭mynameismud


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Make sure to remove your name and address before it goes in the bin. There are criminals out there going through bins to commit identity fraud.

    Should I check under the bed for the bogey man too?


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    #3221
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    hju6 wrote: »
    Exactly, that's why it's unwise to give it to private companies in exchange for a few buckets of water

    Did you give it to your mortgage provider?


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    #3222
    hju6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭hju6


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    Did you give it to your mortgage provider?

    Paid cash sorry to disappoint


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    #3223
    Phoebas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,371 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Hijpo wrote: »
    Nice one, and how are the CER commisioners appointed?

    Do your own research.
    Start here and report back with your findings.
    http://www.cer.ie/about-cer


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    #3224
    mynameismud
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭mynameismud


    papu wrote: »
    As has been said , you'll be charged irregardless

    I know,through government funding as you said yourself a few posts back

    papu wrote: »
    , the pack is an application for allowances... You're binning / Burning your free water.. good job.

    No such thing as "free water"


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    #3225
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    hju6 wrote: »
    Paid cash sorry to disappoint

    Of course you did. :rolleyes:


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    #3226
    hju6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭hju6


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    Of course you did. :rolleyes:

    Are you suggesting that I'm lying?


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    #3227
    Hijpo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    Phoebas wrote: »
    Do your own research.
    Start here and report back with your findings.
    http://www.cer.ie/about-cer

    lol

    You went to the bother of copy and pasting the link to the info but didnt read it yourself to answer a question directed at you?

    Talk about ducking and diving.


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    #3228
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    hju6 wrote: »
    Are you suggesting that I'm lying?

    A champion for IW suggesting others are lying - oh the irony of it.


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    #3229
    eeepaulo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭eeepaulo


    Has this been changed yet?
    Marketing
    Irish Water and/or authorised agents acting on behalf of Irish Water may wish to contact the customer by text message, email, post, landline or in person about water related products or services which may be of interest to the customer ("Marketing Purpose").
    If the customer does not wish to be contacted for Marketing Purposes as set out above, the customer may exercise a right of opt-out by either writing to Irish Water at FREEPOST, Irish Water, Data Protection Opt-out, PO Box 860, South City Delivery Office, Cork City or by calling Irish Water on 1890 278 278.


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    #3230
    hju6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭hju6


    zerks wrote: »
    A champion for IW suggesting others are lying - oh the irony of it.

    Nice one :pac:


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    #3231
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    hju6 wrote: »
    Are you suggesting that I'm lying?

    Yes. I thought the sarcastic face was pretty explanatory.


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    #3232
    Phoebas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,371 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Hijpo wrote: »
    lol

    You went to the bother of copy and pasting the link to the info but didnt read it yourself to answer a question directed at you?

    Talk about ducking and diving.

    The big CER cover-up :pac:


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    #3233
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    I've heard that if you take a piss in a restaurant or pub they are going to charge you 50c.

    Need to know if this is true quickly, it's very important


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    #3234
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,024 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    I've heard that if you take a piss in a restaurant or pub they are going to charge you 50c.

    Need to know if this is true quickly, it's very important

    If you give them your PPS number it's free.


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    #3235
    Hijpo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    Phoebas wrote: »
    The big CER cover-up :pac:

    Another tactic used by government, apply some off the cuff ridicule to an answer to make the issue they should be addressing seem absurd.

    Why would you think that its a cover up?

    I only commented on you not answering a question directed at you, opting instead to provide a link to the information and telling me to find it myself when youv obviously already found it. Its pathetic.

    Are the people that set the rates appointed by a department in the organisation that want to charge people for water?

    You would imagine its a simple Yes/No answer.
    Phoebas or another of their ilk will no doubt come up with some big spiel of how it doesnt matter. :rolleyes:


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    #3236
    hju6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭hju6


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    If you give them your PPS number it's free.

    Ha ha !,,


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    #3237
    hju6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭hju6


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    Yes. I thought the sarcastic face was pretty explanatory.

    Just like Edna's


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    #3238
    Phoebas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,371 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Hijpo wrote: »
    I only commented on you not answering a question directed at you, opting instead to provide a link to the information and telling me to find it myself when youv obviously already found it. Its pathetic.

    Aw sorry. I thought it was a rhetorical question. I assumed that you had at least a remedial knowledge about the topic you were discussing.

    Alas.


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    #3239
    Hijpo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    Phoebas wrote: »
    Aw sorry. I thought it was a rhetorical question. I assumed that you had at least a remedial knowledge about the topic you were discussing.

    Alas.

    Oh look another government tactic, respond with a blatant put down. It has a number of uses this one. It makes one feel big amongst the cohorts as they see it as scoring a point against the others, it also detracts from giving an answer in the first place and finally it will hopefully deter anyone from asking another question on the topic for fear they might get an answer full of ridicule.

    It really is pathetic.


    The commissioners of CER who set the rates for water are appointed by the government who want to charge us with metering in conjunction with increased taxes for same service.


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    #3240
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,795 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    can the pack be filled out and sent back with the PPS number witheld?


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    #3241
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Andy From Sligo wrote: »
    can the pack be filled out and sent back with the PPS number witheld?

    It can but only via registered post.


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