Another smash and grab. I agree that we should pay for our services, but the marginal rate of income tax in Ireland hits 50% at €32,500 or so, less than the average industrial wage.

Maybe if government slimmed itself down it could afford to pay for good water infrastructure?

And I like this: “We’re creating 2,000 new jobs…” Whilst taking yet more money out of the economy that will destroy how many…?

And how exactly are we to afford this water charge. Sure why not just tax air while ur at it. Absolute gobshites sitting there on 100k a year with not a bother in the world. C**ts!!!

And in other news the King of Saudi is to implement a tax on sand.

Consult the public on what precisely? Listening to Hogan on the radio this morning everything to do with this has already been decided. Apart from, that is, how many local authority workers employed on water treatment and supply, will be made redundant.

Does this water meter/charge apply to rural houses which have had to drill for there own well and supply there own water, which is not attached to any infrastructure???

This is a brazen take over of our water services. This government does not have the right to do that. Nationalizing our water system is a prelude to privatizing it. I get my water from where I live from my local authority. They provide a miserable inefficient and awful service. But I would rather face my local authority down than have some centralized office that will not listen to the Community needs of where I live. This is totally “smash and grab”! The government were not elected to loot our resources. The ran on a campaign to protect them. This is lunacy!

Everybody needs to stick together and not pay.

Will this be implemented after the general election ?
I think trouble coming down the road that the labour boys will have major issues with

Here’s an example of what you’ve to look forward too http://nalcro.com/pages/water.php , I rang the council when i got the bill. they said as a business owner I have to start paying now. My office in 10 mtrs from my house and no water running to it. Told them to go stuff them selves and i’ll start paying when the rest of the country does. I was told if i took my business sign down from out side the house and stop advertising they’d scrap the bill.

Notice the way any announcement of any sort by Gov ministers at the moment has the word job tacked on, as if privatising the water supply will create long term sustainable jobs??????
The implementation of the Phil Hogan’s meters will be open to EU wide tender procurement, so no guarantee that any Irish plumbers will install even one meter.
What will happen of course is that this new entity ‘Irish Water’ will be sold off to the highest bidder as part of the second round of Troika ‘bailout’ demands, along with the ESB, Bord Gais, Coilte, Bord Na Mona etc etc….
A UK utility will probably end up owning domestic Irish water supply by 2016.
The net long term result will be job Losses in water supply in this country – as another poster alluded to – what will happen to all the local authority employed water workers at the moment?
How’s that for 100 years of progress?

What a load of bull. Hogan and his ilk make me sick. Charging people to use water is the lowest of the low. My God what has our country been reduced to. Bankers and chancers….So annoyed ,it is depressing to think how helpless they have made us feel.

Did Big Philly say how much a litre he’s gonna smack us for and what allowence will each household get? Last week they decided to charge us for bringing out the firebrigade..now they’re gonna charge us for the water they use to out the fire on the house they’re taxing…this is like a bad episode of the Magic Roundabout….

This is where folks really need to take a stand and just say NO. Otherwise we are pushovers for more and more.

wayhaay!! another QUANGO…..Irish Water. …public recruitment embaro????
why can’t department of environment look after this? they sub out all their other activities!
how many quangos under this department now?
as for the county councils? they overworked as well?

I wonder who are the 10% that won’t have to pay? The usual suspects I presume…

Jeez…… We are one of the wettest countries and have an abundance of water! In saying that we don’t drink ours as its cloudy and has a funny smell ! So what exactly will our money go on?? FFS where will this all end? :(

Water charges should never have been abolished in the first place. businesses are paying it all the time