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LOCK UP YOUR daughters, the Vikings are coming.
Dublin’s Viking Splash Tours are some very modern Norsemen indeed though – they’re looking at a €100,000 expansion and they’ve announced they’re going to do it through crowdfunding.
The lender in question, Linked Finance, are Ireland’s largest crowd sourcing venture. They recently announced a €250 million expansion of their own fund by 2017.
The tours, formed in 1999, are famous for driving (authentic World War 2) amphibious vehicles around Dublin landmarks both by sea and land while shouting very loudly at passers-by and wearing Viking helmets.
They’re also exceptionally well-reviewed with just under a maximum rating on TripAdvisor, and are pretty much part of the city’s furniture at this stage.
With the amount of attention the tours attract from tourists (and stag and hen parties naturally) it’s rare indeed to see one of the tours’ vehicles empty.
So, their expansion has been coming, but what will it involve?
Initially, the money will be used to develop the next generation of the company’s vehicle fleet, but after that, expansion to new cities will be the order of the day.
TheJournal.ie spoke to Crevan Dunne, founder of the company, who feels very confident about the future.
“We’re a successful, profitable, and hopefully enjoyable venture, but our six vehicles are 75 years old,” he says.
They’ve served us wonderfully, but we have to look to the future and that’s what this is about. So our project will see us design the next iteration of vehicle that will secure our future.
After that, we’ll be looking to expand into other European cities. Our current vehicles aren’t allowable in certain other cities so the expansion has to wait until our new ones are ready.
No cities are mentioned by name, but according to Dunne they’ll have a “million-plus catchment” with “river or sea access through historical areas”. So, pretty much every European city then.
Why crowd funding though?
Well, we’re very customer friendly, and we’d like to think we’re an integral part of Dublin’s landscape at this stage.
So rather than traditional banking routes, we thought it would be interesting to give other people the opportunity to get on board.
The structure is also very important to us, this kind of loan offers both very favourable terms and flexibility. So, given how seasonal our business is, we can move forward with the project outside the summer months when we’re at our busiest.
Meanwhile, Peter O’Mahony of Linked Finance sees the announcement as a “milestone” for both them and peer lending in Ireland in general.
“It’s a milestone also in the development of an innovative company,” he said.
The speed with which businesses like Viking Splash can secure loans from us will mean no delays in the completion of their new amphibious vehicle.
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With all the “cheapest water in Europe” articles we knew something was coming and this commission was a joke! How many more votes do FG want to lose?
@Deborah Behan: cheapest water charges in Europe? what utter bs and the author knows it
only spent 300k on external PR? again they would have spent that on one on dobs rags with advertising again utter bs.
the journal has gone rogue and is printing pre prepared articles in a vain effort to sway people into thinking they are getting a good deal with IW, utter bs
can I just say to the author and all the pay up fans, on behalf of the people who attended the rallies
and got the gov to back down “YOUR WELCOME”
@Deborah Behan:
“How many more votes do FG want to lose?”
I have vowed to NEVER AGAIN give a vote to a FG candidate, no matter who it is. I was always a FG voter over my lifetime but never again. I don’t vote for traitors or EU lovers who put the EU before the people of Ireland. I am considering giving my vote in future to SF, AAA and PBP as I believe they cannot be worse then the current idiots and deserve to be given a chance to prove themselves. If they do mess-up then they will be history at the following general election. After what the Irish people have endured for the last few years, what have we to lost by trying them out? It can’t get any worse.
In fairness Ciaran, it wasn’t just the rallies that made the government roll back, it was also the mass refusal to pay by already rode upon people of the country. The ‘peaceful protests’ around manholes had no impact in the roll back/suspension, in fact they actually made it harder for the rest of us! If people had paid, no amount of rallies and marches would have achieved what we did. We’ve marched about austerity and it has fallen on deaf ears as they have us by the short and curlies as they take USC and property tax from our wages if we refuse to pay if water was set up the same way, no doubt the taxpayers would be paying that too.
Improper use of “your”, disgraceful.
@selfsustainable: agreed and fair play to the people who exercised their judgement and boycotted this joke of an administration, despite all the threats and scaremongering ff/fg/lab indulged themselves in
The mass marches were important in building solidarity and giving people confidence to engage in non payment. But it was the mass boycott which ultimately broke the back of Irish Water and without it we would be paying another banker tax now. The lesson is clear. Obedience and compliance is a recipe for exploitation. Solidarity and protest works and has the establishment running scared in the face of a mass movement of the working class.
How’s that working out in Venezuala?
You’re
How is deference to the capitalist system working out in the abjectly poor nations such as DRC, Eritrea, Bangladesh etc etc?
Not every Capitalist country has failed while, objectively speaking, every “workers paradise” has either collapsed or given up the socialist dream.
You’re being disingenuous Jason. Take Cuba, who would have happily exported to the US, yet the US placed a decades long embargo on the country.
The way forward to progress humanity appears to be to take the best elements of Socialism, and the best elements of Capitalism.
Neo-liberal Capitalism is as bad as Communism as neither seem to care about the citizenry on the low end of society
@Jason Culligan: Is that right Jason aren’t those very successful scandanavian coutries built up mostly on socialist policicies with a little bit of capitalism added to the mix?.
@Jason Culligan: In reality both have failed because both ignore the wishes of those who do the actual work. You can not have a nation run for the benefit of one group over another and have it prosper long-term.
Best of luck with that one haha another waste of taxpayers money
@Martin Ryan: Exactly how many Billions of money do FG and FF have to blow on this failed attempt at privatization of a nations most precious resource.
It is like reality has not kicked in and they think it is fine to continually blow billions of euro in tax money
Biggest failure of any Irish Government since the foundation of the state goes to Kenny and the ever corrupt and callous Noonan
@brian boru: ff/fg have called in the black and tans
DOB is no doubt right now looking to buy an in death money collection agency , have its death wiped at expense of tax payer and then use the company we paid for against us……
@ciaran: Do not know about the black and tans but this route will see an #Eirexit
Probably use the same one the banks have been using to evict people from their homes. The ones that wear Balaclava’s and hide their faces and drive around in cars displaying no tax , insurance, or nct. And cover their number plates
It’s high time that everyone who paid their water charges was given a full refund
Journal; can we please have a fact check on how many of theae 95 cities have water supplies in private hands as opposed to public ownership? How much is spent in these cities per capitia as opposed to IW spending? How many of these cities has flouride added to their water suppliy?
So are multinationals not paying for their water as well as not paying taxes. Maybe the government could clarify?
The tender calls for the recovery of business debt
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Stick your water bills up your Fiscal space Kenny
Of you were stupid enough to pay they you don’t deserve anything back
A fool and his money are easily parted !
@ciaran: We got rid of them before and will do it again if necessary.
@Denito: If you were gullible enough to pay them in the first place, more fool you!
@Denito: why?
@LITTLEONE: Ktech security. They will have the Gardai cordon off areas and villages at 5 am to facilitate the thugs.
Fair point actually…..that would balance the article.
If you want to sell your house the sale cannot be completed until proof of payment of all water bills is provided, not only that but if contracts are not finalised by 1st November the seller is liable for the total charge for 2017… a totally screwed up way of thinking…charges on hold my backside. We are downsizing to free up monies and the government is crawling out of the woodwork from every corner to try and screw even more money out of you.
This is what Leo Varadkar said the other day. Pay particular attention to the second part of the quote :
“”I’m disappointed by the council’s decision to grant permission for this new supermarket in Castleknock Village. It’s a pity that the council did not take into account the strong opposition among the local community to this development. “
@Les Behan: Its pretty elitist considering. Its a real case of do as I say and not as I do. Handing over files to a debt collection agency would be political suicide for Fine Gael.
Take it from the €13 billion
Hilarious…..
I wonder is this all the coalition partner, Fianna Fail’s doing?
1. Give the elderly €5 extra a week
2. Threaten people to pay up. Elderly people hand said €5 to Irish Water
3. “Well we looked after the elderly so everyone can get f*cked!”
@Brent something like that yes
@Brent Weaver: Don’t forget Brent, the increase in property tax that is looming large and will wipe out in excess of the e5, so in fact we are all being shafted, there are no increases for anyone just a continuous slide into poverty and struggle…..and FF will tell us (just as Labour did) that only for their influence in the budget why things would be worse, and I hear the politicians are in line for e5000 of an increase in salary, some pigs are more equal and all that.
The Viper comes to mind
@Les Behan: Excellent quote. It couldn’t be clearer!
It’d hardly be a surprise if Redacted happened to own the “winning” agency in this “tender”
@Oisín O’Connor: Yes, it will come out that redacted will suddenly decide to get into the debt collection business next week, buy a stressed company at half it’s market value, submit a tender after the submission date and win it anyway even though it wasn’t the most economically advantageous. Sound familiar?
@Shakka1244: redacted would of bought the agency last week (insider info) using monies loaned to him by us as at mates rates and a promise to never utter a word about it. he is a busted flush protected and enriched by ff/fg using our money to do so.
Let them call to my door and see the response they will get!!!
Does the viper still have his agency?
@Alan b: even he wouldent consider working for this mob of has been’s
would anybody be surprised if an English crew were called for the job? given IW previous IW would insist they wear black and tan uniforms!
@paul kenahan: If they have permission from the court then they’ll get what they are looking for. It may not be cash but it will be your tv, sofa, etc.
What’s with the Journal constantly pulling out that skewed chart, vertical one day, horizontal the next. It’s immaterial to the story. Is there a reason for it?
And it is skewed.
@paul kenahan: This is where the CWU supported Eircode will come into it’s own. Imagine CWU fully facilitated this but pretend they are against Irish Water..
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Overview
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@gary, tell me what law exactly will a court make an order under? contract law signed by only one side? revenue?
@Alien8: speaking of courts I noticed that IW were convicted and fined 3k by a court in galway 3/4 weeks ago yet it never made main stream media? strange that…
@Alien8: Correct: Contract law 101: A contract entered into under duress or without the consent of both parties is null and void.
IW are of course welcome to bring me to court and produce the non-existant contract I signed.
@ciaran: or Blue?
These people have no problem wasting tax payers money. It’s nothing out of their pockets.
Ok…..first up prove to me it won’t be privatised. Secondly reduce my motor tax. Thirdly get rid of the obscene salary scale and bonuses of management. And finally ministers, take the €6000 pay rise that you just gave yourselves and reverse it. Prove your good intentions, then get back to me about paying my water bill.
@Em Ni Mhurchu: Instead of being used to pay for water, Motor Tax should have been used to fix up the roads.
It was an idiotic idea to use motor tax to pay for water.
@stopit….couldn’t agree more!
@Em Ni Mhurchu: but of course Irish Water or is successor are to be privatised.
The demand for PPS numbers was a dead give away.
@Micheal OLainn: the other giveaway was Noonan’s insistence on keeping it “off balance sheet” meaning it is a private company which can be sold at a later date. had he put iw “on balance sheet” revenue would be collecting the charges just like lpt, usc, prsi, paye tax’s, again a sneaky little man with a dangerous agenda
@stopit: unfortunately, it doesn’t pay for roads either. It recoups over €1b each year in motor tax, and the largest council spend was dublin at €60m. ITT (NRA) gets most of it’s funding from a multitude EU schemes, and tolling for motorway maintenance. Motor tax is just another grab tax (one that doesn’t cover the related usage), and that is why there was no issues in increasing it to pay for water as there was zero effect on road expendature.
If they wanted the great Irish public to hate them more than they do then its this. Stupid beyond words.
That reminds me…must get the dogs teeth checked…make sure they are good and sharp.
Lol Robin….can I borrow her?
No worries Mary…anytime :-)
There’ll be a queue for that dog’s services
Just ignore debt collectors. Mostly thugs who rely on intimidation. I have neither a contract implied or otherwise with irish water nor with a debt collection agency. Should anyone call to my door demanding payment then that’s when the fun will begin.
More importantly, you should be able to call the guards if someone is calling to your door when there is no contract signed, or are the debt collectors only going after the “good citizens” who signed up and then changed their minds? I cannot see anything in contract law that would allow recovery of non-tax based debt without a signed contract.
Debt collection agencies are generally haf wit failed bouncers or some other mindless idiots. They have about as much legal standing as an email from a Nigerian prince.
@Alien8: They’ll go after the pensioners first.
@Dave Doyle: Unfortunately you are right as they are the demographic that paid, both because they were told to do it (and they were of the opinion they were being good citizens, not understanding they were paying for it out of the tax on their pensions), and occasionally coersion with the (illegal if they didn’t sign a contract) threatening letters from Irish Water.
Either way, this is going to bite FF/FG hard in the backside it pensioners are the ones that have to protest against being threatened by goons. Any TD worth their salt reading this, that wants their sons and daughters to be elected in the future, should immediately take action to state that no-one is going to be threatened and all IW bills are obsolete, otherwise they are going to be slaughtered in the January 2017 election.
(and before any shills come on, yes I think that anyone who paid should get the payment added to their tax credits, minus the environmental bribe)
The level of desperation within the quango is evidently very high if they choose to go this route. FG – the fascist party are ok with this. They are beneath contempt at this stage. Bring it on lads – never paying a cent to the quango / for privatisation of our water & not multiple times for the same service. I have no debt / no contract so Fluich right off.
Haha. Good luck with that one!
Sure I thought everyone was paying this great debacle. Only a small % were not. Now a debt collection agency is needed . Caught on their own lies.
@LITTLEONE: when does iw exemption from FOI’s run out? no such thing as commercially sensitive in a monopoly
The gangster elites are now hiring professional henchmen to collect their protection money
Pay already, car tax and VAT, not paying ever legalised theft and racketeering is all this is.
Are these clowns really trying annoy the people….they are certainly going about it the right way
Lol.. Good luck with that.
They’ll get a free sample of their product if they knock on my door. Direct from the kettle.
@Trevor Beale: They’ll get a free sample of their product if they knock on my door. Direct from the kettle.
After boiling it.
You’d have to be a lowlife rat to work for that crowd
@simon: Most of their work they have outsourced to minimum wage call centre workers at a company called AbTran.
That is one of the worst company’s in Ireland to work for such is iots level of worker exploitation.
Are these idiots trying to start a war?
Hopefully the debt collection thugs have private health insurance.
There’s a nice soft target of 13 Billion that needs collecting. That might be safer?
See you in Court IW, along with the million other people who pay already.
“Irish Water’s parent company Ervia”
Privatised already and sold to FF/FG/LAB buddies
What does Ervia do exactly? They were the holding company for Bord Gais befire they were sold. They got the IW gig because they already had a billing system which they promptly sold. Leaving the mess at the top. Time to stop these fools wasting money and FF to deliver this.
@lavbeer:
http://www.ervia.ie/who-we-are/the-board
If they can get past the 12 stone Mastiff and Rottweiler il happily pay them for their courage alone.
Get to Fluich….
I’m sure Micheal Martin & FF have agreed to this move!
Our water charges may be low, but it’s on top of everything else that makes us one of the world’s most expensive country-style, like rents, legal costs, childcare costs, insurance etc
@Rosa Parks: It’s only low because it is capped.
Once it has been privatised the bills will sky rocket.
Which is why Irish Water must be opposed at every turn.
Ireland’s natural resources must not be privatised.
Stop saying they are the lowest in Europe, this is a mistake truth.they are currently capped at very low international rate. They will shoot up just like bin charges did. If they were and stayed modest, fewwoukd haveissue, but we all know the long term goal is privatisation
Only if you singed can any debt owed be collected, and if singed we were more or less forced to so could be over ruled.
They can’t send a debt collector to me as I never signed up to irish water so fxck irish water
I have huge German Shepherd in my yeard bring it on
THIS GOVERNMENT WILL FOLD!!! LIKE THE TIME THEY TAXED KIDS SHOES THER WAS UP ROAR AND THE GOVERNMENT FOLDED! JESUS PEOPLE ARE FINDING IT HARD TO LIVE ON WHAT THEY HAVE.
NON JESUS PEOPLE ALSO!
Send them to department
Fat finger, send to the department of transport
Watch out they’ll use Intruim Justice they’re rude two faced staff belittle those they ring
In Holland the price of water is currently 1.61 euros per 1,000 litres. Irish water want to charge us double.
Just as well debt collection agencies have no legal basis in Ireland so!
I also cant wait until one comes to my house. They’ll be asked for a signed copy of the contract/application form. Mine went in the bin. I have no intention of entering into a contract with Irish Water, and never have..
In order for there to be a ‘debt’ there must be a breach of contract, no? And I didn’t agree with their terms and conditions, so???
I just knew with the articles on water and how great we have it in Ireland, something was coming down the tracks. One day later and Irish Water announce they are sending in Debt Collectors!
We already pay for our water(through our taxes) why should we pay for it twice
Has anyone else started to receive leak detection letters after ignoring their bills and outstanding bill letters or is it just me.
@Chris lynch: It’s just you.
They can call all they like but they won’t get a penny off me. What a joke!
This article is Psy op bull no debt collection agency would touch off IW imagine the hassle they would have.
I would like to know why they sent me bills, even though I hadn’t signed any contract. The amount of money wasted on the whole IW debacle, could of been spent on health instead. Also, water is already being paid for through Motor Tax and VAT, so don’t see why we are being asked to pay for it again.
So they paid over 300;000 of tax payers money on an external PR company ,on top of its own 3 person PR team ,what a waste of money,,,and they still haven’t got the message yet,if they thought the protests installing water meters was bad ,just wait and see what happens when they send bailiffs knocking on hard pressed families doors ,,,Muppets ,,they just don’t get it ,,
Never again will fg,labour,get into government.
I will NOT be shocked if the successful tender is from a brand new company headed by John tierney….money is attracted to him…everything he touches turns to gold…and as he retired as a young multi-millionaire ( 27 ) hes young enough to grow a new brand.
Hopefully whoever wins the contract will hire a camera crew. Would make great TV to see them going about their business.
‘Out of their debt’ could the title.
Surprised they don’t have one already ?
How much do we pay per 1000 ltr
If this government try to hand over outstanding Irish Water bills to a debt collection agency they will have lit the touch paper . Standby for fireworks
Good idea. Whether water charges are abolished or not, people should have paid them when they were legitimately brought in by the Dail. Defaulters should have to pay, with interest and penalties. I have no problem with rabble-rousing right-wingers campaigning for workers to pay more taxes so that the rich can have ‘free’ water, but they should confine the campaigning to the abolition issue and not encourage people not to pay a legitimate charge.
@John Mulligan: There is no free water. We already pay. A portion of road tax. A portion of VAT. A portion of general tax. Reduce those three taxes by the % being applied to water schemes, and may well come on board.
Yes, what sinn fein loves to call ‘general taxation’. In other words, let working people pay the bills of the rich and the tax-dodgers through increased taxes. Personally, as a socialist, I prefer the ‘pay as you use’ and ‘polluter pays’ principle, but I accept that the politics of the right have won this debate and as a democrat I have to accept that. So, go on Michael O’Leary, and fill your swimming pool, I’ll sort it out for you with my USC.
@John Mulligan: your argument holds no eh water, the way this will play out is the likes of o leary will still have their pool but there will be a new social class invented by ff/fg “water poor”
Idiot
@John Mulligan: So as a socialist who did you vote for Mr Mulligan because no self respecting socialist could vote for the parties that supported the sale of the nations most precious resource so that means you could not have voted for either of the Fiannas
@brian boru: he’s a socialist who objects to tax apparently and wants everyone to pay twice for their water. I think he might be a bit confused.
@Eucrid: No, I’m not in the least confused. I’m not one of those right wing nuts who thinks that socialism is all about lying in bed and asking everybody else to pay my bills. If I was earning what Paul Murphy earns, for instance, I wouldn’t be asking for ‘free’ legal aid, i.e paid for by people on half his wages.
Bit if job , that one ☺
They only need to knock on 100 doors. The rest of you freeloaders will soon comply.
Our water is supposed to be paid for through taxation Peter, there aren’t many ‘freeloaders’ as you call them around, just people who refuse to have a vital human resource in the hands of an incompetent for profit entity. Irish water have shown that they have no intention of fixing or upgrading water systems around the country, only lining their own pockets. Sending out debt collectors before they have provided the service worthy of payment shows their cynical nature, and it will probably be small businesses that suffer
Peter Barlow paid. “Idiot”
@Peter Barlow: I’d say they will have to knock on in excess of 800,000 doors and the response will be the same, they better not stand close as they will lose their nose as the door shuts, do the FG/FF government want weekly protests?.
@Peter Barlow: I hope they try it. The protests won’t be as peaceful as up to now, when they do. You can only push people so far.
@*The* Brendan Gordon: As I said before on here, the people of Mayo must really hate the rest of the country.
Just let tax money from the healthcare budget or education budget be taken to pay for the water. Can pay won’t pay.
or from the local government fund that *already* pays it! Can pay, won’t pay (a third time for the same thing, but support all those that cannot pay).
Are Irish water still here? I thought they were gone
First up: Apple Inc.
This is a sickening development aimed at forcing people to be charged according to their usage.
How can anyone can think that is fair?
@alphanautica: your right on that . These large businesses have been getting away too much. From not paying taxes, to not paying water.
The tender calls for the recovery of business debt
Well get em at the ballot box for good and evermore this time
Yeah good luck with that.
I would rather the government raised taxes to help pay for water than pay a private company. If we need to have a system that encourages water conservation then surely a system can be worked out whereby we can claim tax credits at the end of each year.. people would have no problem conserving if it means getting a few quid back in the new year. But what’s really going on here is all in preparation to sell off our most precious natural resource to a foreign company and that can’t happen until it’s profitable hence the introduction of a collection agency. If we do hand over our water system to a foreign company which will undoubtedly include our rivers and our lakes, I would be very surprised if we saw any significant change in the system and the charges will skyrocket
Good, I was waiting for this to happen, never thought it would though. Whether people agree with paying bills or not is irrelevant, it was a legitimate bill people had to pay but many just stuck their 2 fingers up at it. Would they do the same with other utilities? Not a hope.
Send in the debt collectors, enforce it and make people pay,
Now, queue all the nonsense comments…..
@Nick Drake: Yes indeed, things will get very interesting. A very good ploy, don’t request debt collectors for domestic charges – but “just in case”…..
No doubt this will be tested in the courts – if it fails then they will re-introduce them….
I think the red thumbs will say it all Nick Drake,
I would question the legitimacy of the charges in many cases, charging for a service already payed for and upgrades and repairs that will probably never be made
@Nick Drake: “Now, queue all the nonsense comments”
Oh the irony!
@Nick Drake: like everything in this country. Government have been allowing business get away with not paying water , I suppose it goes along with not paying taxes.
The tender calls for the recovery of business debt
Nick, there is never anything legitimate about a corrupt scam. You really need to look up “legitimate”
@Nick Drake: Jesus you are on the wrong side of everything Nick.
@Nick Drake: No it was not a legitimate bill.
As I already pay for water through motor tax, I was under no legal obligation to sign a contract with the quango.
FF, FG, they piss on our heads and tell us it’s raining. And charge us for the privilege. And morons here continue to defend them.
This crowd are an absolute joke…There propped up by tax payer’s money and there employing debt collector’s to chase and torment those who don’t pay them.
Great idea and about time.
I also wish some people giving out could spell.
Pupolar comment there sandra
@Sandra Fawcett: if it’s such a great idea , why hasn’t the government done something about businesses not paying for their water. Something that was there long before Irish water. I suppose it’s common things these days , multinationals paying no taxes, not paying for water because its them that a debt collection agency has been set up to collect for.
The tender calls for the recovery of business debt
If you carefully read your request Sandra, I think you will find you already have your wish granted.
@Sandra Fawcett: People are starting to come to the conclusion that peaceful protests are doing no good. They are ignored, dismissed, and numbers marching falsified in MSM.
The government refuses to listen.
If IW go down the road of using debt collectors, it just could tip the balance to outright revolt.
If it does, the government will have brought it upon themselves.
And all their correct spelling won’t help them one little bit.
@Sandra Fawcett:
“Small sinks with one handle or two handles attached to a single spout require a single hole faucet”
We have to pay for water. I don’t my car tax going to pay for michael olearys swimming pool.
@Patrick Goughh
Given the amount of tax Michael o Leary pays in Ireland (unlike redacted)….I’d say his swimming pool..if he has one..has been paid for multiple times..
Dobbo is again pulling the strings…… The FF/FG puppets are ‘dancing’ to his tune..
By IMF appointment?
Will the Irish Water Debt Collectors accept payments ‘on the drip’? Is Irish Water getting concerned because of the company will not have enough ‘liquid’ funds to honour the the salaries of overpaid under performing executives. Did IW employ consultants before deciding to employ the Debt Collectors?
Tendering does not mean that you will actually follow through and engage the service but again it shows that IW fully expect the charges to go ahead.
Hello everyone,
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Thank You All
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