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Jaysus, at this stage I’ll campaign for an end to water charges myself if it stops the ongoing stupidity and hysteria around it.
Hysteria? Why should we pay twice for our water and for it to be privatised?
Ah ffs, again this claim ? We won’t be paying twice for our water.
We don’t pay twice but the problem is that the money from taxes will not be spent fixing the ancient leaky system delivering the water which is a vast waste expensive clean water.
It’ll be spent on money we don’t owe and other such things.
Could you provide proof for your claim that isn’t from the government or Irish Water?
Can you provide proof of what tax you paid that is used directly to pay for the water to date? You can’t…. and neither can the govt? Oh, OK, I see.
The only reason we don’t pay water rates is because FF cancelled them in a cynical move to win an election in the 1970s. And because of that, the system was let rot for decades because there was no direct funding for it.
So, this idea of ‘we pay twice’ is bullcrap, plain and simple.
We weren’t paying for it at all!
We’ve been stealing coffers from other taxes raised else where to maintain it since FF abolished water rates.
The current budget deficit is running at about €1Bn a month, so it could be argued that we aren’t even paying for our water once at the minute…
And some people still struggle to understand this.
+1
Its as if people honestly think that if this charge was scrapped, the money that would have come from it would not be taken from either a new tax increase or some sort of cut somewhere else. Have people forgotten that we are losing millions each week?
Ah, that would be needed to cover the €64bn a$$ ramming we got a few years ago from bailing out the banks that we are still paying for.
Oh, well that makes it alright then, we all partied right ?
I didnt…
The socialists/AAA/xxx sex no crowd say they’ll get the moment from the “rich”.
Chortle, Freudian slip there.
Education – funded through central taxation, school users pay extra
Public transport – subsidised through central taxation, users pay extra
Health – funded through central taxation, users pay extra
These are all OK but water is not. Can you explain why Walter?
When I was in Irish college the Bean an Ti used to recycle the milk from the cereal. As in, she’d put the left over milk from our cornflakes through a sieve and serve it the next day. Also, there was a “one shower a week” rule.
I’m sure they’ll find a way to cope.
Why does anyone leave ‘left over’ milk in their cereal bowl?
That’s the tastiest part!
Or just use less milk ffs!!!
I’ve no time for such cereal offenders…
Snap.
Flakey defence.
Wahey! :)
I always give such people a frosties reception.
t-oatally!
They’ll just have to put up the cost of the summer colleges. Simple.
They certainly shouldn’t be subsidised anyway.
There was always going to be unforeseen impacts from going from no water charges to some of the most expensive in Europe.
I wonder what the consequence will be for recycled materials, as lots of recycleable materials will be contaminated as many peole will no longr wash thm before going in the green bin
There is no water shortage in dublin, just a failure to mainatin basic infrastructure
It sounds like the government are going to introduce reliefs to water charges for the old and those on welfare, whicgh effectively means taht working families will have to carry even greater burden (and as shown working families have taken the biggest hits from austerity).
I’m off to learn Norwegian
Good man McCreedy, finally you realise they’re not ‘crazy Swedes’