Big Phil didn’t read that part of the script, it never ceases to amaze why politicians think the general population are a bunch of idiots that can’t see through their propaganda

The future wars of this world will be fought over water, not oil. Ireland needs serious investment in water infrastructure. I’ve always paid water charges wherever I lived because water doesn’t produce itself at my tap or clean itself for free. Those that campaign for no water charges yet also campaign for a pollution free Ireland need to get a dose of reality. You can’t have both. I know the government is going to take the piss and price gouge everyone. That’s a given. But we are paying for our future water supply and frankly I think it’s pretty damn important to make sure there is something clean coming out of the tap and even more so, there actually is something to come out of the tap.

Water charges are likely to be abolished in the next election if Independents/SF are given a chance.

Sesame street policies of FG-LAB-FF?

True Barry. I buy all my drinking water now. I used to have lovely tap water 7 year ago when i moved in. Now it smells and tastes like bleach with chemicals and dangerous toxins and metals. I will never drink tap water in this country again.

Potholes are the least on peoples minds. The number 1 issue for Irish people is when water charges will be abolished.

This investment will create jobs and stimulate the economy. Progress must be made. We can’t just let the country fall apart.

You’re missing the bigger picture: Ireland does not need water charges or a property tax. The Irish people do not want them either. There are alternative avenues: spending cuts and rolling back tax cuts on the top 10 per cent.

Mark
Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Not more of the discredited tax ideas from Sinn Fein. Would you ever look at what caused our economic collapse just a few short years ago and recognize the problems associated with the pretense that the tax base can be narrowed and the wealthy can pay three and four times more. This sounds more and more like the old Fianna Fail rhetoric that caused us the loss of our sovereignty.
Fool me once ………….

Please tell me where and by whom has sinn fein taxation policy has been discredited. They have mostly advocated untried and untested methods of revenue collection. Untried and untested because all prev. Governments have protected their buddy class.

I would prefer seeing USC abolished rather than water charges. I can (to some degree) control how much water I use so that I don’t pay too much (shower in work, don’t wash car etc. for example), but I can’t control how much tax is taken straight form my wages.
I don’t see anyone getting rid of water charges though – It would just mean raising other taxes, shutting down a company and losing jobs. As we should all know politicians will promise the moon to get elected – doesn’t mean they will do it.
I think Fine Geal are front loading these tax increases and charges only to cut some in their last budget to essentially try and “buy” the next election, a la Fine Fail. That’s my prediction anyway.

If we all stopped wasting clean drinkable water there would be no shortage of water and less need for massive infrastructure investment. We use drinkable water to flush our toilets, water grass, wash cars etc. we should all be collecting rain water for those kinds of uses. Every house should get a modest allowance of free water paid for by the tax payer to cover drinking, dish washing etc and if you waste water by watering your grass or not fixing leaking pipes you pay! We would all get clever about water usage then.

Spot on.

Well if you want to drink unprocessed filth water than be my guest, but I’ll keep drinking the safest stuff.

….and how will this loan be paid back? You guessed it! Tax!

@viscount,the water meter that is going to be installed outside your house which you will pay for 1.installation
2.all charges for maintaining
3.pay for what you use

@John. “safest stuff”?? Tap water here is toxic with chemicals. Don’t kid yourself.

Your around 20% more likely to get a range of different types of cancer in the republic than northern ireland because of the flouride and flouride doesnt make water cleaner.

Heres a link from the irish medical times that explains it. http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2012/11/lets-not-dilute-the-issue-of-our-water-fluoridation.html

Matthew, read that link, scary indeed, Seems as if theres an agenda to murder Irish people. The long game of genocide? Years ago Gromley from Greens talked about this, how much he was against it, some years later he became a Minister, a position you’d think he could use to abandon fluoride. But NO, nothing happened, hes now gone and the current guy doesn’t care and lives in the sky. You really have no control over anything, fluoride won’t be going anywhere, powerful people will it to be present. You have more change in pushing the tide back with your backside than you do at getting rid of this stuff.

Thanks Daniel it would be great if more people could read that article.
Any chance The Journal could write something on it????

Scarry stuff indeed glad I ve my own whell ! I ll avoid that nasty city water in d future stink of chlorine is awful as well