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***ALL THINGS IRISH WATER/WATER CHARGE RELATED POST HERE***

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    #2882
    Fr. Ned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Fr. Ned


    Daith wrote: »
    Residents are wasting Gardai resources.

    Did the residents call the Gardai?


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    #2883
    slippy wicket
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭slippy wicket


    heard this goon on the radio, serious smell of bs off this story.

    what was he at, trying to breed a sports team or wha


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    #2884
    Curly Judge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭Curly Judge


    conorh91 wrote: »
    A Carrickmacross family claims they face water charges up to €4000 per annum, because they have accumulated a grand total of 13 children.

    Listen here
    http://www.newstalk.ie/player/listen_back/13240/13219/02nd_October_2014_-_The_Pat_Kenny_Show_Part_1

    The taxpayer hands this family €21,000 per year in Child Benefit, no questions asked about these parents' bizarre, or negligent, reproductive choices.

    OK, so be it. It's not necessarily any of our business how many kids they have.

    But if the father of this household goes on radio looking for sympathy over his water bill, would you be inclined to be sympathetic towards him?

    I'd hand him a Burdizzo and let him do the job himself.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdizzo


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    #2885
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    I have no sympathy whatsoever. Children cost money, and they made a choice to have a lot of them.


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    #2886
    131spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭131spanner


    If they've to start re-using bath water it'd be fair shít to be the 13th kid in...


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    #2887
    M5
    Registered Users Posts: 10,161 ✭✭✭✭M5


    Family of 13 shocked when they find out they have to pay for said children. :confused:

    Keep it in your trousers, or suck it up (no pun intended)


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    #2888
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,023 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Daith wrote: »
    Nah, people should be able to work in peace.

    Residents are wasting Gardai resources.

    They're not residents. Four arrested in Dundalk and brought to court, three not from the estate where they were protesting. The other one is unidentified. The rent a mob will have disappeared by the time the actual residents get their water bills.


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    #2889
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Wouldn't he be entitled to certain allowances? Otherwise, how is it a news story?

    Oh wait, to rabble-rouse. :pac:

    I have my criticisms of Irish Water but he's totted up how much he'll be charged approximately. What's the issue? There aren't any extra charges - it'll cost a lot because of the number of people in the household.


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    #2890
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    So da gubberment is trying to limit the size of families?


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    #2891
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    No one, i assume, forced them to have 13 kids.
    Maybe they should have thought of costs back at number 2.


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    #2892
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    So da gubberment is trying to limit the size of families?

    And it's more people we need, not less!


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    #2893
    flutered
    Registered Users Posts: 6,685 ✭✭✭flutered


    it cost say €80m or is it €80b to set up irish water, could not that amount have been used to help upgrade the service, if the goverment then said homeowner are being made to pay €500 over two years as a once off payment to add to the goverments imput, could/would this have solved all of this.


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    #2894
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    13 kids? Hardy man!


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    #2895
    Fr. Ned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Fr. Ned


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Sinn Feins numbers budget numbers don't hold up to scrutiny, we just need to hope there are enough intelligent people left in the country not swayed by populist politics. Wanna talk about promises not kept wait till you see the shinners backpeddling on the water and ltp if they ever get into power.

    But thats incredibly off topic

    Our budgets aren't decided by Irish people.

    You do know that Germany gets to see our budgets and has to approve them before anyone outside the 'gang of four' who run this country see them?


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    #2896
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,023 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I wouldn't want to be the employer having to pay him a "living wage".


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    #2897
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »
    Wouldn't he be entitled to certain allowances? Otherwise, how is it a news story?
    Nearly half a million litres a year if the kids are all under 18.


    Bigger families in certain parts of the world wouldn't use that amount in a lifetime.


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    #2898
    Fr. Ned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Fr. Ned


    OSI wrote: »
    So you'd actually prefer they were beaten?

    Yea, that's right. That's what I said right there. Jesus Christ:rolleyes:


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    #2899
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    No sympathy. If I've to pay then so does he. Simples


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    #2900
    Ronin247
    Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭Ronin247


    They get childrens allowance so does every family, but at least he is going to work to help support his family, probably one of the very few with 13 children who do work !!. The water charge will bring him closer to the point where it doesn't make economical sense for him to go to work.


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    #2901
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Shocker! Kids that cost money?! Surely not


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    #2902
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    i honestly query sometimes how having too many children isn't seen as negligence by the law towards the other children.


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    #2903
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    The Most Fertile Man In Ireland


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    #2904
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    M5 wrote: »
    Family of 13 shocked when they find out they have to pay for said children. :confused:

    Keep it in your trousers or suck it up (no pun intended)

    It's a bit late to be telling him that now.


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    #2905
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,023 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Ronin247 wrote: »
    They get childrens allowance so does every family, but at least he is going to work to help support his family, probably one of the very few with 13 children who do work !!. The water charge will bring him closer to the point where it doesn't make economical sense for him to go to work.

    What would he do if he had to stay home all day.


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    #2906
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    conorh91 wrote: »
    A Carrickmacross family claims they face water charges up to €4000 per annum, because they have accumulated a grand total of 13 children.

    Listen here
    http://www.newstalk.ie/player/listen_back/13240/13219/02nd_October_2014_-_The_Pat_Kenny_Show_Part_1

    The taxpayer hands this family €21,000 per year in Child Benefit, no questions asked about these parents' bizarre, or negligent, reproductive choices.

    OK, so be it. It's not necessarily any of our business how many kids they have.

    But if the father of this household goes on radio looking for sympathy over his water bill, would you be inclined to be sympathetic towards him?

    This is a trully serious subject OP and I am deeply concerned.

    BUT - I have to listen to half the Pat Feckin Kenny show - a show that I studiously manage to avoid :mad:


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    #2907
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    What would he do if he had to stay home all day.

    make more babies?


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    #2908
    Fr. Ned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Fr. Ned


    flutered wrote: »
    it cost say €80m or is it €80b to set up irish water, could not that amount have been used to help upgrade the service, if the goverment then said homeowner are being made to pay €500 over two years as a once off payment to add to the goverments imput, could/would this have solved all of this.

    It's actually €180 million...so far.. plus 'tax non dom's' contract, supposed to be north of €1 billion.
    What, exactly, have we got for our money there?


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    #2909
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Ronin247 wrote: »
    They get childrens allowance so does every family, but at least he is going to work to help support his family, probably one of the very few with 13 children who do work !!. The water charge will bring him closer to the point where it doesn't make economical sense for him to go to work.

    He'd have to pay them whether he was unemployed or not wouldn't he?


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    #2910
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Humans reproducing. My taxes Joee.


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    #2911
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    We're in a group water scheme, so it makes no difference to us. :pac:


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