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Column: Irish Water set-up is repeating the mistakes of the HSE

No real savings can now be made for 12 years in Irish Water, while we create a duplicate of the existing arrangements and also set up an expensive new central agency to boot, writes Eamon Ryan.

Jan 27th 2014, 7:30 PM

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'In a mythical country, you'd have set up a water body with less people' - Noonan

The Finance Minister said that savings at Irish Water would be seen within ‘five or six years’.

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Jan 27th 2014, 4:08 PM

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"No decision on Irish Water charging," - Gilmore

The CEO of Irish Water today suggested that the service of those who don’t pay will be affected, but Eamon Gilmore said nothing like that has been decided on.

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Jan 10th 2014, 3:05 PM

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"The Irish people gave us a mandate to bring in water charges" - Phil Hogan

The Environment Minister says that the government “fundamentally believes” that user-related charges are the right way of raising more tax.

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Sep 3rd 2013, 9:00 PM