Pay water charges or be cut off warns Taoiseach Kenny
TAOISEACH Enda Kenny has warned that people will be cut off it they fail to pay water charges.
Amid continued speculation that households face an €800 bill for new meters, Mr Kenny refused to give details of potential costs when the new charge is introduced in 2014.
”These are all matters for discussion about how the system is actually going to work,” said Mr Kenny.
”If you don’t pay your electricity bill, if you don’t pay your water bill, it’s cut off.”
Environment Minister Phil Hogan confirmed yesterday an annual charge would come into effect in 2014, which will go towards repaying the €450m loan the Government will take from the National Pension Reserve Fund to pay for water meter installations by the new utility Irish Water.
The Taoiseach pointed out that while water is “fundamental for life”, the Government is not in a position to give people a free allowance.
”Clearly the system here is for everybody to understand that we cannot go on the way we have been going on,” Mr Kenny said.
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“The Taoiseach pointed out that while water is “fundamental for life”, the Government is not in a position to give people a free allowance.”
Nor is the government in a position to deny people water. It does not have the right to do so. Simple as that. It is a natural resource, it falls freely from the bloody skies for God’s sake and as such it belongs to the people of this country.
Let us hope that Kenny and his corporate paymasters waiting in the wings will taste a little more of the defiance shown by the people to his property tax.
”If you don’t pay your electricity bill, if you don’t pay your water bill, it’s cut off.”
”If you don’t pay your electricity bill, if you don’t pay your water bill, it’s cut off.”
”If you don’t pay your electricity bill, if you don’t pay your water bill, it’s cut off.”
If you don’t do the job you were contracted to do, and let us be clear here, I am referring to the Irish people not the ones who are obviously pulling Kenny’s strings, your contract would be terminated.
In an ideal world, the exact opposite of the one we’re living in, if a man is elected to the highest position in the country and fails to fulfill his duties to the people, he would be fired forthwith. Instead we see one shoneen bastard after another hoist the flag to fire the blood and then shit on it when it has served its purpose. Has politics not been exposed once and for all for the charade, the farce and the calculated insult it is?