Irish Water can, and should, repay customers

It has been whispered that Irish Water would face an administrative nightmare if it had to refund payments. Nothing could be further from the truth. Irish Water’s database contains three categories of customers — those who have paid in full (under threat of legal enforcement); those who have made part-payment; and those who have paid nothing at all.

In this modern age, a few simple lines of computer programming could rapidly list those customers who are entitled to their money back.

That would expedite repayments as easily as it took to give everybody the gift of €100.