Politicians, take heed of the many reasons for paying water charges
The more remarkable recent headlines referred to politicians disowning water charges which they themselves initiated when they were members of a previous government. They actually made the discontinuance of charges a condition of forming the present government.
The most recent headlines refer to a member of the present cabinet who asked the attorney general if he should pay.
Most of the rest of us paid because the water/sewage infrastructure has not been adequately maintained for decades. We also paid, because, when the country was bankrupted by the decisions of its own most powerful citizens, they proposed water charges as a means of raising money to plug the glaring gap in the coffers.
We also paid because water charges were included in budgets, national plans, and agreements with the representatives of those foreign taxpayers who funded our bailout in 2010.
We also paid because water charges were passed by the Dáil.
We also paid because most developed countries fund water/sewage systems by direct charges.
In summary, we paid because we support the equity, efficiency, and sustainability of a perfectly rational, economically and environmentally justified, lawful and necessary direct charge for a metered water supply that applies in most of the developed world.
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