@P.J. Nolan: It’s according to the “ US council of Environmental Quality “

@Colette Kearns: “it’s science” it works 93% of the time everytime

@Colette Kearns: You might not realise that the figure you’ve quoted relates to one sample who were drinking rural run off water that was chlorinated. The chlorine combined with various fertilizers and decaying organic matter to increase the occurance of rectal cancer.

@Honeybadger197: * that was then chlorinated

I love the game of ‘lets pretend’ with regard to the embarrassment called ‘Irish Water’. Its like their contentious extravagant frittering away of upwards of a billion euro never happened.

@Honeybadger197: from 1978

@Colette Kearns: exactly it is not put in the water systems in other countries.

@Colette Kearns: 93%!? While I agree that a huge cause of cancer is the amount of chemicals in the processed food that many CHOOSE to eat. However, where did you get that percentage? If that was the case then nearly everyone drinking it would have cancer and that’s not the case.

@Ciarán McPhillips: Have you seen what it does to the workers in US chicken factories, it makes them ill for life…

@Alois Irlmaier: ..or the effect it has on Syrian civilians when their dictator president drops barrels of it on them from helicopter

@Ricky Spanish: well if FG weren’t intent on privatising OUR water supply and handing it to their mates, maybe people would have been less vocal.

PS, when are we getting the referendum on this?, im still waiting and voting preferences will not be forthcoming until it happens!

@Ricky Spanish: Most people didn’t object to paying a bit extra, but they won’t pay for a gang of crooks to have lavis cars, bonuses etc etc etc, our water services would be privatized by now ( which has turned out to be disastrous) if it wasn’t for people power!

@Ricky Spanish: You are Alan Kelly and I claim my 100 e reward

@Ricky Spanish: The answer you are looking for is in the cheque you received.
I didn’t waste any money by signing up and getting a refund, and yes I and every other worker pay handsomely already.

@Ricky Spanish: eh….it costs to add this to the water.

@Ricky Spanish: Now now Ricky we already pay for our water multiple times so do try to keep up to date. So would you please tell your blueshirt buddys and their tax exile benefactor to shove the water charge/scam/bondholder tax where the sun dont shine. Many thanks.

@Ricky Spanish: So the FG way is to poison people. The linch has been paid for over and over again. It’s still being paid for. Toddle along.

@Ricky Spanish: I saw part of a documentary tonight on RT about Irish Water and how the Troika wanted to privatise it and out government told them not to use that language yet as people would see it… So the Troika wants to privatise all water in the EU…

@Alois Irlmaier: Shouldn’t RT concentrate on their own experience with privatisation? How all the oligarchs in Russia became billionaires after they got a hold of it’s state assets

@Ricky Spanish: apologies I’m late getting to your comment ( work gets in the way sometimes). I just wanted to say that you’re a moron. BTW – there’s plenty of free lunches being had in the Dail every day – there really is such a thing as a free lunch Rickeeeeee!

@Derek Lyster: its a utility starved of cash due to a waste and stupidity of large section if irish public.

@Tony Dowling: obvious Tony from your comments your not too knowledgeable about the waste and quango iw was and or the love of common sense still hasn’t been fully disbanded.

@Tony Dowling: But surely keeping the water under the control of the local authorities and using the additional taxes that were created many years ago to pay for the upgrade of the system could have helped solve alot of the problems? And imagine how far the money that was wasted setting up I.W. would have helped a great deal too?
I just don’t get why I.W. was set up. Any function they provide could have easily been provided by already existing local authorities and all of the grief caused and money wasted could have been avoided?

@Derek Lyster: It was set up because it is mire efficient to have a single utility than couple of dozen local authorities. Economies of scale would have saved money in the long run and the pay per use setup would have cut supply requirements in half.

@Tony Dowling: According to the world’s leading expert on water and sanitation provision and internationally renowned environmentalist,Maude Barlow “The Irish system of paying for water and sanitation services through progressive taxation and non domestic user fees is an exemplary model of fair, equitable & sustainable service delivery for the entire world”
She served as Senior Advisor on water to the 63rd President to the UN General Assembly.

@Tony Dowling: your a hopeless case tony

@Tony Dowling: Efficient like the HSE?
Where are the stats to prove that money would be saved in the long run and that requirements would be cut in half? It may well have saved the government money but the public would have been fleeced.
People need what they need and meters would not change that although it would cut down on waste but education could assist with that.
Without a doubt I.W. was a complete phuck up by the government who just assumed we would fall into line so i will just stick with the general opinion of I.W. is a complete waste of money and was set up to be sold so our water supply would end up privatised.

@Fiona Fitzgerald: probably human error or incompetence Fiona. Although how it went on for as long as it did I can’t understand. I read this morning there’s been a smell of chlorine for 10 days. All treatment plants have high chlorine alarms so how it could go that long is hard to understand.