Conor Farrell tweetz:
Balbriggan Against Water Charges protesting outside Irish Water HQ now.
Update:
Outside Irish Water HQ, Talbot Street corner of Foley Street and Buckingham Street, Dublin.
From top: (l-r) Ciara Hendrick, Aoife Hendrick from Walkinstown and Brendan Young from Cellbridge part of a Non-payment Network planning a National Bin Your Bills protest on April 18; Anti-Austerity TD Paul Murphy and Sandra Fay from Tallaght.
(Leah Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
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If you don’t like water charges just put a barrel outside and collect rainwater. Simples.
You still have to pay the charges whether you collect the water or not.
Or just pay your existing taxes which have always covered water services.
Or just pay your existing taxes which have always covered water services.
(see what I did there just for you, you obviously like doing things twice, so reading the same thing twice will be just up your street)
Covered? No.
Last October’s budget had €500m of a net giveaway. That €500m, a large chunk of which went to reducing income tax for those earning more than €35k, could have been used to pay (a multiple) of the Irish Water annual charges. So, covered? Yes.
except they don’t cover water services.
and how were the the water services paid for up until now then Martin…you..imbecile?
According to broadly quoted statistics, Ireland loses 40+ percent of the potable water it produces in leaks in the system.
So what we already pay covers production of the water we use PLUS 40% extra, free water, that we’re wasting through neglect of the system.
What we don’t cover is maintenance and upgrades – which like maintaining and upgrading our hospitals and schools, should be paid for in a progressive manner. You don’t charge parents of the pupils in a primary school or families of the ill in hospitals maintenance and extension building costs on a flat-rate, income-ignorant basis, we shouldn’t be building a new water network with a flat-rate, income-ignoring poll tax.
The presupposes that those who seem to be able to protest full-time…ever paid a penny in direct tax in the first place?
VAT makes up more than a quarter of all tax receipts. Excise around 15%. Even the dole scroungers – much beloved by the Irish Water shills on here who would like to believe such “scroungers” make up 100% of the protesters – pay these taxes.
IrishGravy owns all water including rainwater, see what they did there?
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/12/02/skyfall/
More Northside Blindness from Broadsheet; that’s not Talbot Street, it’s the corner of Foley Street and Buckingham Street.
“For just €10 a month, you can help provide websites like Broadsheet with clean Irish Water and prevent Northside Blindness……”
I didn’t realise Walkinstown had moved to Balbriggan?
BOOOOORRRING!
Its all water under the bridge now
That’s yer man. Yer man who turns up at every protest. Who pays him to do this?
OH YEAH, us the tax payer.
Don’t let the uniform fool you, that’s actually a different Garda.
And how exactly is he being paid by the taxpayer? The TAX…PAAAYERRR.
I’ll assume you mean the Dole but you’re assuming he’s not a student on break or a part-time worker or on annual leave.
And I’ll assume you’re a Fine Gael troll.
he’s a TD, you imbecile.
How’d he get in and on what basis? By majority vote of an electorate who support his stance and methods, and who are happy to by represented by him, and by definition, pay him.
Just like Jackie Healy-Rae.
Excellent, 18th April, Garden of Remembrance, a true bonfire of the vanities, burn your water bills, and if you can blag any free copies of Herald, Indo, Sunday World or Sindo, burn those too. As the good folks in Derry recently found with their Burning Man Temple, there’s something cathartic about burning rubbish in your lives.
*clicks lighter at Broadsheet comment section*
I fully expect a dawn raid on Paul Murphy and Sandra Fay’s homes by at least 10 Gardai apiece for
Standing in a doorwayholding Irish Water employees hostage.#yawn #isthisoveryet #welfarewednesday