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Water charges for excessive usage
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Here's the thing, look at all that money that was spent setting up I.W., consultants and meter installation, not to mention the very generous bonuses and severance payoffs.
Where did all this money come from, taxpayers off course, all of us.
So the service we got for our money was, from the outset, shoddy and inept. Money wasted.
If they had rolled all that money into the creaking infrastructure first, then at least we would have seen a service worth paying for, not some gilt edged quango jobs for the boys.
Were we not promised that by Maryanne`s blue eyed boy Enda Kenny.
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Brendan Bendar wrote: »Overdoing the hyperbole a wee bit John.
Lookit, the bullhorn brigade seem to have latched onto climate change as their ‘ magnum opus’ for the future yet these were the lot who resisted the water strategy to the nth degree.
Kind of makes one wonder about their commitment to any climate measures which might impact on their support base.
Same old story, we want world class this and world class that, but we won’t put our hands in OUR pockets.
Game is up.
Let's address something now, many of us had been posting on the cackhanded way Irish water and the charging regime was rolled out from the beginning, the metering deal (still under investigation) to a long term buddy of the FG party, the consulting fees, laughing yoga, the bonus systems in place even when the report cards might say "must try harder", there was psnumbers needed, then they weren't, charges wouldn't be capped then they were (which made the meters a cart before the horse) - there was wastage, corruption and blatant disregard for the hard working taxpayers, and their money.
There was also the massive distrust and resentment that developed between Gardai and citizens in some areas, not least when members of the impartial force were brought in to court to swear under oath, things that didn't happen as they claimed it did, resulting in the unprecedented steps of a judge instructing a jury to disregard their statements, as video evidence contradicted it.
Billion squandered, and two boil notice warnings in Dublin/Meath/Kildare in as many weeks, after a billion squandered.
The final insult arrived when an "EC" set up by the govt ultimately said, after taking a long hard look at things, that the best way forward for charges was via general taxation, or - to put it another way, via the method it had been funded already, before fg and labour tried to carve up our water services to be sold off to private entities.
And btw, it was middle Ireland who called an end to the madness, the people who took to the streets and ignored the quangos letters and demands.
I like how you now have become part of the 'no way we won't pay' brigade Bren, five years later and the pendulum finally swung.
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Deleted User wrote: »There is no unfairness issue only in your mind. If I lived in an unmetered area, do you think that I’d pay for my neighbors wastefulness? No Siree. I’d have a meter in immediately. People aren’t fools. They’re not going to pay someone else’s utility bills.
Genuine question.
If you were unmetered why would you want a meter installed because you suspect some neighbour is exceeding their allocation
In an area of hundreds if not thousands of unmetered households what exactly do you think your single meter is going to achieve 0 -
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