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SPAIN’S ARMED BASQUE separatist group ETA has said it’s ready to discuss disbanding and to negotiate with France and Spain if certain conditions are met, in a statement published on a Basque news site.
The group, which last year said it had abandoned violence after a four-decade campaign for an independent homeland that claimed more than 800 lives, said one outstanding issue was the transfer of Basque prisoners to jails closer to home.
ETA wanted to discuss “formulas and timetables” to bring home prisoners and Basque political exiles; disarmament and the break-up of its armed structures; and the demobilisation of ETA members.
The statement ran on Naiz.info, the website of the Basque newspaper Gara.
Until yesterday’s statement, the group had refused to announce its dissolution and disarmament, as demanded by Spain and France.
But weakened by a series of arrests in France and Spain in recent years, ETA said Saturday it was ready to “listen to and analyse” proposals from Madrid and Paris.
The two governments would have a “precise knowledge” of its positions, it added.
Gara said it would publish the full statement in its Sunday edition.
ETA has been placed on a list of terrorist organisations by the United States and the European Union and has been blamed for the deaths of 829 people. Its last attack on Spanish soil was in August 2009.
It has persistently called for around 700 Basque prisoners incarcerated in jails across Spain to be transferred back to prisons in the Basque region so they can be closer to their families.
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He doesn’t ‘personify’ the company because hardly anyone has ever seen him. How deluded they are to think that they can salvage this utter shambles.
Its obvious whats going on. Yesterday they wheeled him out in front of the cameras, today he’s being protrayed as the ‘face’ of IW. He may well be the latest stooge to be thrown under the bus so kenny can hang onto power by his fingernails.
Hopefully he takes Kenny and the rest down with him!
Get rid of him…Tierney, Kenny, Kelly, Howling, The lot! Get rid of Irish Water, Get rid of the government, Fine Fail and Fine Gael and that lot labour too. They have utterly failed this country. They are a miserable and unsophisticated load of gombeens out to line their own pockets and treating us like the proverbial ass that will carry them and their loads further up the country roads. Enough!
Here here!!
Hear here
Ah, here!
WHY THE ****CK ARE WE BEING ORDERED TO PAY 5EUR/M3 FOR WATER? THIS IS AN EXTORTIONATE RATE. MUCH HIGHER THAN MANY EU COUNTRIES. DOUBLE THE RATE FOR COMPANIES! PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP AND JOIN THE PROTEST IN DUBLIN 01 NOV OR PAY 700EUR FOR H2O AND DONT COMPLAIN. DO THE MATH XM3/DAY * 365 DAYS/YR. COUNT ON 0.15M3 PER DAY PER PERSON. IF U WATER UR GARDEN OR WASH UR CAR ADD MORE. DO THE MATH! AND OH YEAH DONT DEDUCT THE ALLOWANCE AS THIS CAN DISAPPEAR IN A FLASH AND STILL THE RATE OF 5EUR STAYS. THE ALLOWANCES ARE TO GET UR PPS NO. AND DETAILS ONLY. THE 280 EUR CAP IS GONE IN 9 MONTHS.
FG U TOLD ME MY PROPERTY TAX WOULD GO TO LOCAL SERVICES FOR MY COMMUNITY. U LIED AND GAVE IT TO AN OVERPAID OUT OF CONTROL AND UNACCOUNTABLE QUANGO – IRISH WATER
No they gave it too German bondholders
Hear hear
Damien…stop shouting at us…we are on your side…
A cool head, massive protest by the people, and systematic refusal to pay…that’s how we win this… This time they will have to realise that the proper, good, decent members of society are not going to tow the line…play pansy and just handover a cent for a utility we have already paid for. A cool head is needed….there is no doubt there will be some elements on Nov 1st there to incite trouble/riot/arguments…fodder for RTE and their paymasters….Keep it cool and calm…we will win
So right Jenni, the ultimate protest is simply for us all not to pay this extortionate tax
@ Damien, the charge is 4.88 or 2.44 if you have your own septic tank for example. Your €700 per year quote above, for water is purely a number you picked out of the air to dramatise the situation. The ‘math’ as you call it, shows that 0.15m3 is 150litres and there’s no way the 4 people in my house are using 600 litres of water a day, we flush, we shower, we clean clothes, wash dishes, we cook. If you are using 600 litres per day then you are one of the many wasteful people who use resources like there’s no tomorrow, then maybe they should set an incremental charge to target you and your kind.
That’s what’s wrong with this country…let the captain go down with his ship.
Don’t Send back the forms to Irish water let’s stick together on this were not a shower of conformers on everything. They will piss down your neck only if you let them.
@Sam:
There, there!
John, even economically I get to 0.42m3/day for 4 people and that’s without washing the car or using the wash machine or watering any plants or gardens. Just work it out. Shower, drinking water, tea, toilet. Washing the dishes….Thats 712eur excl allowances. Those allowances are worth for a family of 4 about 350eur but guess is these will be reduced over time or eliminated either by this or future administrations. Either way its a lot of money. If and when iw is sold the rate could be increased or allowances done away with. People are well able to work this out. It is double taxation and no I dont the liars in dublin should have given 600 mil car tax and 450 mil property tax to set up this new quango. Remember what we were told the property tax would be used for…that’s right local services. So they lied about that too.
Get rid of Irish water itself. Problem solved no one wants it
Are fg/lab deliberately acting like f ing idiots? They really don’t respect the intelligence of the Irish people. WE DONT WANT to be double charged for water thru taxes and the f ing water meter.
Exactly! It’s not a change of CEO we want! Water is our right!
They plan to do the same with universal healthcare. Charge us and keep taxes at the same level. Double tax. Vigilance is the price of democracy people.
November 1st Local and Dublin protests for Right2Water campaign. Come out and show them what you really think that day everyone!
Is there anything on line showing were protests are taking place around the country Brendan?
Brendan I am almost 50 years of age and have lived in 2 countries and have never protested before, but, I will be out there in full force on the 1st of November! I can not afford another thing coming out of my salary a month!
http://www.right2water.ie/events
Full details on events / local demonstrations to be announce on Tuesday 28th October.
Kerry right 2water are posting on Facebook about all the country and city marches on Tuesday.
WELL DONE SARAH.
Protest March in Cork on Sat.25th come and support please. Government in a mess regarding IW it is all about votes.
Im visiting cork at the weekend so will go. I assume patrick st?
Lapps Quay start then around city
Ironic though that Ogle is involved in right2water as he has already seen the future.
Fergus your wrong the Irish people do not want to see Tierney removed we want to see Irish Water gone.
Still out of touch Fergus….
The more these idoits come out with the better, as it just drives the knife deeper and we will never stop until IW is no more then what it should be, the Irish people’s
Now feck off the lots of ya with your crap
“Fergus O’Dowd says Irish Water CEO should go as it’s what the public wants”
I agree with you Mr O’Dowd, but by that logic so should your cretinous crony infested sham of a government.
Incidentally, its not just a new CEO that people are calling for, its an end to this blatant attempt to extort money out of people to pay for the same utility twice.
Scapegoating one person seems to be in fashion. The government created Irish Water, its their fault and nobody elses
He is right, we do need a change at the top, starting with Enda and the rest of this government.
Don’t worry. He’ll throw everyone else under the bus before he gets the blame
Howdy Folks,
Some important information regarding post codes has just come to light.
We are getting postcodes called EIRCODEs next year but they are a screw up. They will be no use for emergency services in the case of a road traffic accident or any other accident or incident that does not take place in a dwelling.
So they are only good for a dwelling, meaning that they are only good for a water tax, property tax and for TV licence. They cannot be used for reporting a bad pothole, they cannot be used to report livestock on a road, they cannot be used to guide an ambulance to an RTA, they cannot be used to report a house fire in a rural area unless the person reporting the fire knows the postcode because they will be secret and need an expensive database to work that will require regular costly updates to your GPS or in car satnave to be accurate.
A BRITISH company won the tender to give us EIRCODEs that company is called Capita PLC and they specialise in collecting the council tax in places like Birmingham…oh they also bough NAMA loans and are very much embedded in other shxtholes like Afghanistan and Iraq.
So who was the chairman of the government’s Postcode Working Group that recommended a crap 1960s era code….who is responsible for the screw up that is EIRCODEs???
None other than Mr. “IRISH WATER” himself, Mr. Incinerator himself, Mr.John Tierney…nuff said.
Regards,
Get Lost Eircodes
Absolutely Brilliant Post GLE
Irish water is only the headlights of the train that is hurtling towards the Irish people – November 1st – Is the time to roar our defiance and send out a resounding NO!! to this government,
shyster politics and the Corporate greed that is being unleashed on a global scale.
And an IRISH company already with postcodes LOC8 offered this to the government but they have so much money to waste they decided to buy @ in excess of 1.4 million Euros.
Sorry Tony you are a little bit wrong there, Loc8 codes were offered to the state for free but Pat the Wabit never even returned the inventors call. So instead of FREE they had a €25,000,000 tender won by a British PLC who gave €10,000,000 to An Post the runner up.
What a great little country we are, illegal to give €10,000,000 in state aid to An Post, so we give €25,000,000 to a British company and they give An Post €10,000,000…not bad for the loser.
Now you see if the state had accepted Loc8 codes for free how would Ireland inc. have blown €25,000,000 and funded An Post illegally ????
Answers on a brown paper envelope addressed to John Tierney, Irish Postcode Working Group, Department of Communications Energy, Natural Resources and Tribunals.
Garmon use the LOCH system.
Garmin use LOC8 system.
Yep Garmin sure do use Loc8, there are also apps available check out Point8 for Android and Point 8 for iphone. They let you use your phone to generate and map Loc8 codes.
And you can sure that Garmin and co will soon be wooed with a small fortune to support this mess. A postcode for each house – overkill without a reason.
Have to say I didn’t know Tierney was involved. He must have serious dodo on someone.
@Get Lost, you’re not fXXXing serious , this gets worse and worse, its like the Italian Mafia, only worse , only now we are beginning to understand what has been going on in secret, these gangsters have been working away behing our backs for a long time , but we are WAKING UP at last
People wants irish water to go not one person. Lol
Couldn’t care less is they put Ronald mcDonald or The cast of Cheers in charge. WE DON’T WANT OUR WATER PRIVATISED OR TO HAVE TO PAY FOR IT TWICE.
What part of that do they not understand.
Remember when an FG government fell because if shoe tax? Do they never learn.
Some of us already pay for but don’t receive it, the user pays model is fairer.
Then will they give back the 1.2 Billion in taxion which pays for water so? Then people may agree on a pay per usage. The other issues being so many ill just say a few, privatisation, pps numbers, ridiculously high pricing , staff bonus’s… its never ending
1.2 Billion plus 500 Million in collections, divide that by the number of households in Ireland, 1.5 households, lets say 1000 euro per household, yep that seems about right
Great shtuff, Fergal!
The Italians had a referendum to ensure their water could never be privatised. Doing the same here might go some way to appeasing people.
STEVE, SPOT ON. MY 1ST PROTEST WAS OUTSIDE DAIL EIREANN IN JULY 2012 AND I HAVE 1000EUR PER HOUSE ON IT. THAT’S THE GOAL AS U SAID TOTAL NEARLY 2BLN IN WATER AMD PROPERTY TAX. SIMPLE. I TOOK THAT SAME SIGN TO THE PROTEST 21OCT AND ILL BE THERE AGAIN ON 01NOV IN DUBLIN.
Seriously, fu(k off with the caps. Are you ten?
What’s your problem? If you can’t be civil you shouldn’t post. What has your offensive language to do with water tax?
They just don’t get it, do they? It’s not the Board we want gone, It’s the whole farce that is Irish Water. We will not pay for our water twice or even three times. And we will not let our natural resource be sold off to a Private firm. Don’t register and Don’t Pay. All out Nov the 1st and lets end this farce.
The people want Irish Water to go in all forms, not just the ceo !!!
What sort of a dipstick is he people don’t want Irish water full stop
We don’t care whos running it, we don’t’ want it to exist at all.
Whatever the merits or not of water charges that’s all an irrelevant moot point, Labour said they would not enter govt at all if water charges were on the table, that was their promise and that should be what they stick to. If they can’t bother to stick to that, then nothing they ever say in future, at any future election, should be taken seriously.
Any time a Labour TD or councilor joins a debate in the next election the other people on the panel should remind the audience what a Labour promise is worth by reminding them of college fees and water charges.
This is coming from The former minister who helped establish Irish.. and now hes saying “I think we should reset Irish Water now,”… They just don’t get it, do they? It’s getting rid of Irish Water as a whole, not just the Board and CEO, that’s what the people want. Even if Mr Tierney goes, no doubt he will get a nice pay off on-top of yet another pension.
*who helped establish Irish Water….
Off the subject for a moment I have worked for 46 years when I retired I received 1 yes 1 pension. What I can’t understand is when politicians retire it is possible for them to receive anything up to 5 or 6 pensions why is that ?.
Tony, because the Oireachtas and the Government of the day sets it’s own rules for pay, pensions and perks without consulting anyone else. They vote their increases in a single day. Remember Bertie and his benchmarking? That was the single stroke that drove their pay and that of certain civil servants into the stratosphere.
Irish water should go. That’s what the public want.
O’Dowd has suddenly found his voice. While he was a minister all we got was silence. I wish he reverted to type.
Fergus O’Dowd should apologise to Irish Public for the part he played in setting up Irish Water.
You can fluich off as well O Dowd. Your bricking it as your cushy career is now on the line. We want irish waster and all associated with it gone. That’s what we demand. Nov 1st.
Good man, setrakian. I, for one, have a long memory. I won’t easily forget O’Dowd and his threatening and pleading over the “household charge “. Talk about Adam Ant singing Stand and Deliver! He later admitted that the charge was completely unfair, but “necessary “.
How stupid are they ! No, we don’t want Tierney gone, we want the whole shambles dismantled and the government gone !! Are they actually that thick that they think Tierney is the problem??!!
Don’t hang it all on John Tierney, what we really want is IW gone ! Gone, gone, gone ! and you’ll be gone too after the next election.
Does he actually think that by Tierney going will change the publics perception of Irish Water… typical Fine Gael ..looking for a scapegoat…..O’Dowd was involved in the set up himself.. he got shafted and now he is watching his seat for the next election…
History is an endless panorama of repetition. In June 1945 the German Field Marshal von Runstedt was asked what Germany should do following the Allied invasion at Normandy. His advice was laconic and to the point “Make peace you fools” This cornucopia of cretins, aka known as the Irish Government, would do well to heed the Field Marshals advice in relation to Irish Water. “SCRAP IT YOU FOOLS”
No Fergus, the public want irish water gone not just the director.
I dont care who’s running the bloody thing why cant you completely ignorant tools now realise that . You can put Santa Claus in charge and I’m still not going to pay
Doesn’t matter who’s in charge, how much of a standing charge or weather or not there is metres in, this company needs to be wound up as soon as possible. People will not accept it and will not be ignored or pacified
Fergus O’Dowd owes the Irish public an apology for the part he played in setting up Irish Water and since things in his mind have gone so badly wrong maybe he should also consider his position.
It’s time the government had the courage to back the utility they set up.
Putting on different suits and changing words will make no difference. We are already paying for water in other forms of tax. No to paying for water that comes free from earth. None of this gibberish about 500 euro to treat water per house, we never heard this charge before the troika. Lies upon lies. Next we will be metering air we breath, where is the Truth and transparency Mr Kenny.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
WAKE UP o’dowd and listen to those who put you where you are, those who pay your wage, pension and benefits.
Good god man, do I have to go to Dublin and grab you by the shoulders and shake some bloody sense into you and your ilk.
I think Irish water is a genius idea.
Where else in the world except Ireland could you get to set up a business,charge the customer for a product that should already be free and when the equipment breaks down the customer get to pay to repair it. It’s just brilliant .
The whole government should go, shower of clowns.
How about this abolish Irish Water and associated charges o lose your seats at the next election.
Pol, we must email your message to every skunk who inhabits the Dail.
Write to every one of your TDs telling them your vote is gone if IW is allowed to fleece us. It won’t even cost u a stamp address it toTDs name c/o Dail Eireann Dublin.
How difficult is it to understand? Water is essetial for life and should be provided by a government to its people, not packaged and turned into a commodity to be produced by a private company at a profit while forcing people to purchase same which they already pay for through heavy taxes. To persist in telling the people we have to rethink not only is insulting and dismissive, but also another clear indication how detached certain polotical circles are from the people. YOU are the ones who have to rethink. We will not be bullied, intimidated or condescended to anymore.
What a complete plank. There is no mindset to change. We pay for water, we wont pay for it a 2nd time.
I am nearly 63, I have never protested against anything in my life but all will change on Nov. 1st. I will be out on the streets with my Poster, NO WAY. NO PAY.
I AM 63. I was at the last march, and I will be at every march, until we wrest our country back from those that would turn us into mere units of production – or alien slime, as I like to think of them :-D
“There is a huge message to be sold “. Need anyone hear more. The same old paternalistic, insulting crap. ” If we make the message more palatable and conceal the truth the peasants will fall for it again. “. This dope actually thinks he is making himself look good by saying this, shows how abysmally stupid he is. WE WON’T PAY. We won’t wear being lied to any more.
I wonder would he have been so vocal if he hadn’t been sacked. i doubt it.
Changing the management will make it possible to change the people’s viewpoint on water charges is total BS; the public say NO to water charge, what part of NO do these idiots not understand
Who will be left paying the golden handshake following any “resignations” of irish water????? A pure joke and taxpayers aren’t laughing
No, No, No, No, what we would like is for Irish Water & Water charges to be scrapped.
Gagsy No we will not pay again we already pay no usage bullshit or whatever you’re on about NO SECOND WATER TAX . It is a human need and right and we will not be forced to pay again
Wrong Ferguson. We’d like to see the whole entity of Irish Water disbanded, and the matter of metering water, put to a referendum of the Irish people.
This to me is beyond Irish Water needing to go, a naive and foolish government needs to go too. We are bailing out another area in trouble due to miss management of public taxes raised. Also before the politically aligned red thumbs start rolling in, I’m not aligned to any party independant or otherwise. Irish water charges are the equivalent to charging Arabs for sand. We should be making a profit exporting clean bottled water. Not charging the taxpayers of the country that a hell of allot of it falls in. See you all November the 1st!!!!
Looking at this article again , it really does appear that the Government and the “boys” have already picked out the scapegoat for this mess and turning the wheels on damage limitation . If that man has the slightest bit of sense he should step down from the position and then air in public all the dirty laundry and corruption and the governments involvement in it all . Play them at there own game and you will earn my respect and will probably be in a better position to continue your career than sitting back and letting Enda and the boys completely destroy you when the chips are down
I’ve no problem for paying for the supply of clean drinking water piped to my home. I’ve been doing so for years thro a dedicated percentage of excise duty and motor tax, which I already pay. What I object to is paying for it TWICE! Why not abandon the newly imposed water charges and fund IW with those monies already collected thro taxation. And while they’re at it remove the pension levy, both private and public! Our ‘puppeticians’ need to realise that you can’t take the knickers off a bare arse!
Had some dealings with Fergus O’Dowd while he was deputy minister, found him unplesant to deal with and not on top of his brief, Kenny was correct to fire him. Never met Tierney.
Mr. KENNY as we are a Republic by name give us a referendum !.
T G Someone on the government is on tie side of the people I would like him to go a little further and say scrap I W then i would be happ.
I think Irish water was a good idea, the user pays model has countless benefits
We already pay! Around €800 per household last year! 1.5 million households, 1.2 billion was raised for water through the taxation added in the 2007 Local Government (Financial Regulations) Act!
It obviously isn’t enough as the infrastructure is borderline victorian
Steve stop you’re trolling and go back and watch the rte propaganda station! You’re wasting your time here
I forgot if you don’t agree with the shouty people on the journal then you are trolling, yes, yes indeed.
it obviously isn’t enough as the govt are unable to manage money properly, and would rather share it between themselves (do they really deserve those salaries?) and their mates, so when their mates are in power they can do the same.
and around and around we go…..
It employs 4000 people but only needs 1700, go and talk to the Public Sector Unions about 17 year contracts.
Shouting is done in caps, like this, SHOUTING. I used an exclamation point, to emphasise what I said. Stop stalking me please
I said Shouty not Shouting. Things to do, stop stalking Barry, check.
Steve Hardy, see the green thumbs when you talk sense
Yes it’s all about the thumbs isn’t, oh to be popular
@Steve Hardy. You obviously work for Irish Water or FG, there is no other possible earthly reason why you would be so desperate to pay. It just doesn’t make sense, even if believed the environmental argument you must be aware that the money which would have been raised would have gone to the Troika so you’re insistence on paying is puzzling to say the least
Yes Steve, you must work for Irish water as the anti charges brigade can’t believe some people agree with charges. You must be an fg/lab troll who works for Irish water.
Steven,’border line victorian infrastructure is a myth as all you have to do is check out when most of the mains water infrastructure in Ireland was built. You will notice something very interesting the vast majority of the water infrastructure in the Republic of Ireland was built in the 20th century. In fact mostly after 1920 With the part exceptions of what we now call city centre’s. The problem we have now is that very little maintenance was preformed in the last 30 years by successive government who’s members were to busy lining their own pockets and their cronies pockets. Many of these TD’s are still in the dail on both side.
This has resulted in the situation where 45% of treated water is lost in leaks before it ever gets to people’s homes.
We pay in taxes already for our water. Do you think we should pay a second time.
And there is still more than enough water for the Irish populace even with the leakage Thomas.
They could’ve virtually wiped out all the problem areas with the amount of millions they’ve squandered in the setting up of this debacle.
Don’t buy into the conservation argument as I’ve said before we in Ireland have access to 5 times more fresh water than your average European, properly managed we could sell it to the Arabs.
This was always about generating more revenue in the form of a stealth tax, ignore the tree huggers water is not and never was a precious resource in this country.
William I agree with most of what yo say there. But water is a resource the needs to be protected. So it can be safe to use for everyone. But it a right not a privilege. And it will be a cold day in hell before I pay twice for the same thing.
When was O Dowed sacked ???
It’s not the man they need to get rid of its the water charges and the Government
Trust no one.
First impressions last and to “step aside” is political lingo for golden handshake with full pension for life.
Just fire the donkey!
I agree Richard. He should be sacked. Arrogantly handled in the extreme. Sadly he will get a huge payment, fantastic pension and get on the board of a few companies. In about a year he will get another very highly paid job in another quango and still retain his pension. Sack him and make sure he never works for the government or quango again. Cronyism is the life blood of people like him and it stinks.
The only problem with doing this, would be the fact that if they sacked these people, we the already cash strapped public, would have to pay them out! Can you just imagine how much this would cost the poor tax payers?
Ah, Sandra, a trojan horse after all! :-)
I’ll pay. If the water delivered is at 80 C temp and I can heat my house.
Irish water has nothing to do with safeguarding our water needs into the future. It is just set up to pay 4000 staff there wages. The money generated will only do this as there all on amazing contracts. 2/3 s of all the money that will come in will be gone on staff costs. Its a joke, plus it has no interest in green affairs or water conservation!
Eventually reason will win out – a usage based charge is reasonable.
Notwithstanding the implementation shambles, this is a charge that makes sense and is in principle fair.
Fair? Really? There is absolutely nothing about this fair, greedy cowards doing exactly what they’re told by faceless European bullies that’s what’s happening here and the irish people will not tolerate it, Fine Gael, the water company and the Labour Party are finished, all of the above are an embarrassment to themselves and the country
Use more water, pay more,
Use less water, pay less.
Seems fair to me.
Use vast quantities of water wastefully, pay same amount of tax
Use water sparingly, pay same amount of tax.
Seems unfair to me.
Gagsy in reality that would be great but firstly it’s already paid for through general taxation and secondly we have already been told that if this water company fiasco is allowed continue we will be charged more if we don’t use enough,
Now if water treatment and distribution had been left in the hands of the councils, the money stolen by Fine Gael from the local property tax to set up irish water ( it’s gonna cost even more to wind up, but for once that will be money well spent) could have been spent improving the infrastructure.
I’ve decided to stop responding to any posts including the “we already pay for it” nonsense argument.
I can’t take it anymore and I can’t help assuming that anyone who continues to make that argument is incapable of grasping any logical rebuttal anyway.
But thanks for the gibberish anyway!
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass. I, for one am really bored by your trolling.
Off you go gagsy, I’ll put back all the toys you’ve thrown from your pram,
I sincerely hope you get paid for the tripe you post here and it’s not your actual belief.
Btw am I wrong? Is water not paid for from taxation?
See above.
Ha ha! Gagsy u lil runt. Bok bok bok
Gagsy, we will see which argument wins out after the next General election, I wouldn’t be putting money on Labour or Fine Gael winning, Endas democratic revolution is about to be delivered, just not in the way he envisaged!
Gagsy. The implementation shambles is real and will result in massive inefficiencies and cost. Just like UHI would.
Your beliefs on water fair enough. The reality will be different.
ai remember reading somewhere that if in the future customer reduce thier water useage to an extent that it affects the profit margin of shareholders and the costs involved at IW for providing the Utility the cost per ltr will be increased:( and judging by other Countries who have installed the dreaded meter system that is the honest truth
Fergus you were absolutely useless as Minster you did not for your elected area I mean nothing .
Trying to be the saviour you went on National TV we must pay the property charge etc.its a F….n Joke what’s going on now .NO country in EUROPE Would in put up with it .to think that muppet Fergus has got MINSTERS and TEACHERS pension your a joke MINSTER
his has to be the result of state medias self-Censorship along with one-sided, inaccurate, half-assed misleading reporting on the #waterCharges. People in officialdom are actually not getting the message at all, whatsoever. The Irish people don’t give a stuff who’s in charge at IrishWater Plc, they want the entire bogus operation stopped and the faux ‘Utility company’ disbanded in favor of a TRANSPARENT, accountable, govt controlled one. What they DONT want is double charges for water. And the Privatisation of our water supply or utility company.
When u think about it, we kinda privatised a public service , including on boarding employees from local county councils – what do you expect ? Ryanair – the complete opposite is to be expected
Yeah its Irish Water we want gone.
Today while paying rent, my landlord asked if I’d registered. I told them no and that I’m not going to. I was warned to rethink my decision and to register ASAP. My landlord made it clear they would not be paying for my water and that my lease would not be renewed unless I register… I am living here over 2 years, that can’t be legal can it?
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