Politicians misjudge anger about water

Why not just get the existing system fit for purpose rather than adding more cost to this great Irish debacle and accentuating the wide divide between the elite and the ordinary people?
Of course, fear now stalks the ranks of the elite with the dreaded spectre of putting themselves before an angry and militant electorate. This dedicated phoneline will no doubt allow the elite to tell the people that they were working hard to ease their concerns about Irish Water.