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WATER CHARGE PRICES will be announced in or around August according to the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER).
Commissioner at the CER Paul McGowan made the revelation this evening during a sitting of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee at Leinster House.
The charges are set to begin in October with the first bills due in early 2015 but a pricing structure has yet to be decided.
One of the roles of the CER is in regulating price changes in other utilities such as gas and electricity.
McGowan told the committee members this evening that the CER has not yet been given this statutory regulatory power over Irish Water but assured members that “the commencement order is due within days”.
In setting the charges, McGowan said that the CER would ensure that the charges are reasonable in terms of the costs of setting up Irish Water.
He said, however, that he could not provide any details as yet as to whether these charges would be universal or whether they will be different across various local authorities.
McGowan did pledge however that the CER will publish Irish Water’s submission on its proposed charging structure along with the CER’s commentary on it.
A public consultation programme will then follow with the final decision on charges expected in late Summer.
McGowan was then questioned about whether there would be different charges for water that is used for drinking taps and that used for sewage leaving a property. He said that although no definitive decision has been taken on such matters that he would envisage that this would be the case.
He added that in some properties, those with septic tanks for example, charges would only be incurred for water used in sewerage removal.
CEO of Irish Water John Tierney reiterated that the new semi-state will not have the power to cut off customers for non-payment of charges.
Fianna Fáil TD Seán Fleming asked Tierney whether supply limiters would instead be put on properties instead, echoing a loopholes used by local authorities currently.
“If you look at the last three charges that were introduced including the property tax, 93 per cent of people pay these charges. Those people want to see that for people who don’t pay that there are penalties in place,” he responded.
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I can’t be Bertie…..I have a bank account!
I can’t be Bertie….I don’t know as much as him!
i cant be berte , im only half a c@nt
I can’t believe I forgot about holy hour down the pub!
I got Bertie aswell, now I feel sick.
I don’t know what a tracker mortgage is??
I barely remember Ireland yesterday lol.
Mrs Sala; will you forget austerity?\o/
Mrs Shalakalananaka, not Mrs Sala lol. What kind of crazy name is Sala?
How’s Mr Benedict tonight Mrs S
Beautiful as ever, I’d imagine, Jenni. ;)
Ill have you know that in the year 2000 I got fired from a job for the first time, witnessed both national rugby and soccer teams both playing well (a rarity) and regularly got to see the Gasworks before they put that glass crap in the middle of it. Dont tell me I did’nt make an appearance that year just coz I got 4 out of 10.
What you get fired for?
For not making an appearance
I got ran off a job once, it’s a cool story so I’m kinda proud of it.
@Marcus. Ha Ha correct, for not making an appearance at the allocated time
fine nobody seems to want hear my class story.
Jamie , ok I’ll bite , tell us your story !
I’ll keep it short and sweet ‘cos people don’t got no time for. Basically I was a labourer on a building site which happened to be Kilmainham Gaol during the renovations. Foreman was a geebag, gave me no work, i was left to me own devices. I explored everywhere for the few days i was there. I could write an essay. The day i got gate, the monday, i had spent an hour below in the dank cave underground where Anne Devlin spent her time and indeed all her family at one stage. There was a hollow in the ground in the corner where she had sat forlornly for 18 months. I sat in that hollow and i think i fell asleep or something but when i came to walked away i didn’t feel right.
Oh yeah, foreman asked me where i had been, told him i’d been walking around looking for things to do and he told me to keep on walking out the gates, which i did.
Wah !
So basically you were on doss and ya got caught . Brilliant !
I was exploring.
Did you enjoy your little adventure ?
Very much so, I got to go into all the places the public aren’t allowed. I feel strangely privileged.
Jamie , fair play I have to say I’ve never visited there and I used to live nearby too , terrible really .
I like that story, it’s daft!
Imagine, I’ll buy a new motor for the 00 factor.
What kinda people were we, huh? !
Now we buy it for the 1 or 2 factor
Eugene, you have perhaps forgotten the scrappage scheme?
Some of the questions are stupid to be fair, knowing how many cars were registered can only be a guess
230,000 cars bought!
The picture of Bertie with the pint turns my stomach
One of the best years ever for Ireland and the world … sense of having moved on from the bad old days, full employment, sense of looking to the future, real grinding poverty was eliminated in Ireland, most people had decent lives, peace in the North, football and rugby teams were decent, 9/11 not yet happened, no sense of any crises in Ireland since it was pre-foot and mouth disease and politics just happened without much fuss as people’s lives were fairly easy for the first time … I was 10 .. I remember the years from 1998 – 2000 fondly.. Maybe all 8-10 year olds do though!
Also, it was before the era of massive Internet use, smartphones, social media etc. which makes me very nostalgic as I think they make life worse. Mobile phone use increased hugely around 1999/2000 I think too.
Living rooms in shared houses are like bloody Internet call centers now, miss the days where you could come home chill in front of the TV.
Dave , I’m with you on that one , I do kinda miss those days too .
Excellent how, you summed up all the good stuff very neatly. Things look a wee bit messier now though.
Wap was starting off I think it was Vodafone or something, the days when 1mb cos £25
If you ever watch the brilliant historical documentary ‘seven ages’ which was shown on rte in 2000, you get a real feel for what the feeling was in the country at the time in terms of how people thought of the past and how they viewed the country they lived in at the time. It seems like a very tranquil and “at peace” time for the Irish people, where the past seemed a world away and they were in a new, better age.
Homelands in Mosney. Carl Cox concluded a superb event..
Any yokes?
any jokes?
Ber Ber Bertie.
In facta…
Dis..Dat…and Doose
Ah here , first you tell me I’m ed miliband and now you tell me I’m Bertie ahern like seriously ?
3 outa 10. Not bad considering I spent half of my time in the bottom of a bong those days.
Great days
I got 5 out of ten not bad considering I lived in NYC at the time !
Every time Bertie Ahern smiles an angels wings fall off – fact!
10/10 Marc McCabe!! Whoo good times
Bertie Jaysus
2000′s was a strange phase for me. I got my leaving results and had to decide at the lovely age of 18 what I was to do with the rest of my life.
Yeah, I messed up.
Yes, I do regret my choices, but I had one shot so couldn’t quit!
I went through the I hate my parents stage. No matter what they have done, they will leave you someday. Call them. They love you and miss you.
Cecelia, I am your father…………
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
I’d rather be a Jacques Chirac.
Who the f*** is Mark McCabe?
Seems I know everything about 2000 except him.
Heard a fellow say one time, Charlie couldn’t tell the truth, Gareth couldn’t tell a lie, Bertie couldn’t tell the difference
A ba ba Bertie??
Can you imagine if Mark Mc Cabe played Slane that year, the entire Wes heads would have had a field to go knacker drinking in instead of the banks of the river Dodder! #maniac2000
Drunk for a lot of that decade :)
BOD!?! The glamour of it.
Bertie! What a great lad! No, wait! I mean what a fu(king tit!
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