In the populist race to dismantle Irish Water a simple fix is being overlooked: dismantle Irish Water for the purposes of collecting water charges from individuals; however, keep Irish Water as the state body briefed with the task of securing safe and efficient water supply and sewerage disposal service from properties in Ireland.

THE reduction of two years of effort by a Leaving Cert student, across a broad spectrum of subjects, to a single CAO points figure is a crude system — it can never reflect the diversity of their talents and achievements.