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THE DEPARTMENT OF Environment and Irish Water will meet the costs of burst pipes the water body has said.
Reports today suggested that one in 50 homes in Dublin City that had meters installed required repair work, at a cost of over €130,000.
While calls were made for the water body to pay for the repairs, a statement today said that that was already the case.
The statement also put the blame for the broken pipes on the ageing pipe network, not Irish Water contractors.
“[I]t was always anticipated that in the course of installing a meter, pre-existing leaks and other latent defects due to the age or condition of the water pipes would be discovered.
“These leaks are pre-existing leaks and are not caused by Irish Waters contractors.”
The statement added that the cost of repairs was originally borne by the Department of Environment last year and Irish Water from now on.
“In order to ensure that there was no delay to the metering project and to ensure that no local authority was financially disadvantaged by having to redeploy resources, the DECLG provided funding to contribute towards this expenditure incurred between the start of the metering programme and 31 December 2013.
“In 2014, the cost of these repairs is part of the operating costs of Irish water.”
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Drink good me drink when young me no problem
Never done me any harm, hard to know what to believe thesedays
@Jonny: “did” and “these days”
@Jonny: clearly it has though, thanks for proving the point
@Yzo Sirrius: Quality
@Jonny: should be Johnny not Jonny
@Barry Somers: weirdo
@Yzo Sirrius: grammar nazi are we
@Figo murphy: I know how my own name is spelt.. Shouldn’t you be doing something more productive with your time than posting ridiculous comments like this
@Jonny: ah bless, too much booze as a teen I’d say.
How are they still able to mess with monkeys like that?
@Stephen Small: You just get them drunk and they’ll let you do anything.
I would suggest teenagers who drink regularly to excess would have a lower level of brain activity before they started drinking
I not think that drink harm brain me ok
Ah so that’s what’s wrong with me brain!!
Ahhhh Jonny
That explains everything.
No bottle or can health warnings, no education, no penalties for underage drinking, no support for those who become addicted.
I could never become an alcoholic after what I saw it do to relatives. Meanwhile my friends never shut up about how funny and grand drink it. Oh well …
So everyone in Mediterranean Europe has stunted brain growth? After all most of those countries have a culture of drinking wine with meals from an early age.
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