July 2: Taoiseach insists the promise that water charges will average €240-a-year “will not change”.
July 31: Most Irish families will have to pay at least 20% more for water than the Government claimed less than three months ago with the average cost for a household of two adults and two children coming in at €278.
Thanks Barry the Hatchet
Meanwhile…
If avg household in the State has 2.65 people, how on earth can 0.5c a litre result in average bill of €240 (40,000 ltr for 1 adult = €200)
— NAMAwinelake (@namawinelake) July 31, 2014
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Forget that, look at what they charge you if the water they pump to your house isn’t drinkable.
You get 50% off for the first three months, and it’s free after that.
Where else can you go to get toxic waste on tap for such a low price?
labour are gobshites. hope they get f@cked in the next election.
Labour….this is ALL FG…labour were never going to anything.
Labour promised that if they were elected they would NOT introduce water charges. Did they pull out of government? Of course not, they implemented the water charges with gusto.
Fudge labour, a small minority in gov without a backbone. This is all FG. Gotta look after the friends in high places after all.
Wow, I agree with Helen!
Won’t someone think of the wealthy shareholders for once!!? Always the last to be considered when complaining about the privatisation of our water supply, that is now becoming more expensive (what a surprise) than envisaged thus contradicting the logic and reasoning of privatising the water supply in the first place..gaawl.
Wait…who is it that you think owns Irish Water?
Well in 5 years it’ll be the french who own it.
anything completely new that the government implement is always laden with massive problems from the get go. and this is showing all the hallmarks of another complete disaster, possibly worse than anything before. it’s like the chimps tea party in the Dail.
I will never pay this extra charge.
Thats because you won’t have enough money from washing dishes for 50 euro on Jobsbridge.
Checked my (california, where we are currently experiencing a drought) water bill. Averages $50 a month, or about half the proposed amount. They’re proposing a crazy price on tap water.
Assume they get the €240 figure NAMAwinelake is perplexed about by taking the figure that the average adult uses 130 litres a day (which is the figure google tells me is the European average), that’s 47450 litres or €237.25 per year at .5 cents, but that’s assuming people effectively spend almost all day every day in their homes. If you work 40 hours a week that adds up to roughly 30% of you waking week averaged over the year, and doesn’t account for non-work outside of the house activities.
Except no, it’s not assuming people effectively spend almost all day every day in their homes. Because it’s an average.
How is the average calculated?
Google will answer you.
After 2016 they will be free to extract water from your children
Well they are already extractin’ the p*ss.