Oh.
The results of an Irish Mirror online poll this afternoon.
First water charge bills to hit homes from tomorrow as protesters continue to resist (IrishMirror)
Meanwhile…
Irish Water has confirmed that it has asked around 11,000 customers who submitted payment details in writing or over the phone to re-submit the information.
The company said that 9,000 customers who gave details of direct debit mandates over the phone were asked to re-submit them in writing, following concerns over data protection.
11,000 Irish Water customers asked to re-submit payment details (RTÉ)
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Mirror readers…
Broadsheet, obviously infinitely superior, commentators……
Well, not to put too fine a point on it: yes.
If I went to my local Enterprise Office with the business plan that Irish Water are working off I’d be laughed out of the place. I certainly wouldn’t be given millions upon billions of taxpayers money to play with and rightly so.
On the other hand, when my local Enterprise Office tells me they’re happy to apply the same standards to my submissions as the government are happy to apply to Irish Water, I’ll be in like Flynn!
I would also lean that way
Yeah, but I’d imagine if you walked in with any business model that revolved around management and upgrade of the water network for the entire country, you’d probably be laughed at too.
Totally consistent with the type that would read the Mirror.
The ‘type’? Snobby twit.
Let’s go to the Winchester, have a pint, and wait for this to blow over.
“VAT for me Dave and a swift half for Tel”
How’s that for a pint of fried fudging gold
The day open internet polls become reliable enough to consider to be valid / use as news is the day the internet has turned in to some form of dystopian system with absolutely zero privacy… so not quite yet than.
Is there anyone in charge of Irish Water?
How can one organisation make so many mistakes with basic issues like customer/citizen/user details? And bank details, at that.
Even Enda and Joan must be struggling to put on a brave face at this stage.
That’d be Dr John Tierney.
The PhD is in Governance dontcha know.
I imagine that if you were setting up a payments system for over a million households for the first time, that there would be many hundreds, if not thousands, of mistakes.
Particularly if people are filling out their forms as ‘Mr M. Mouse’, as they claim.
You keep telling yourself that…
A co-worker of mine got the sign-up pack, fileld it in and sent it off. And then a few weeks later got a second pack, filled it in and sent it off. And then her landlord told her he got a letter to say she has yet to sign up. At this point she has no idea if she is signed up or not, and is actually worried about it.
The mirror, that says it all!
Ya see if everyone stood firm and didn’t pay, there’d have be to a major root and branch review of Malta resident and billionaire Denis O’Briens sneakfest mugging of the people of Ireland along with his dodgy, underhanded, brown enveloped setting up of a company (SiteServ) in the history of the State. But no, we’ll back down again and bend over like a cheap hooker in Fresno to allow another wallet robbery for water whilst still paying the regular taxes and charges that have paid for water services to date. Revolution me hole.
hould yer whist
not many people are going to pay this
and when the bums are thrown out in 2016 twill be reformed
1. Old landlord insists I register for Irish water, knowing full well I’ll be moving out before first bill.
2. When moving without receiving any bill I contact Irish water to change my address. IW cannot find my account at all in their system.
3. Eventually it transpires, that the first person I dealt with at IW had put my name and address into their system, wrong.
4. Have to wait on the phone for nearly an hour in order to make a simple address change. Very frustrating.
5. Move house.
6. First IW bill arrives through the door, with the landlords name on it, saying he is unregistered for IW.
7. ???
World’s most unpopular utility, manages to maintain status by ridiculously incompetent practice.