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Irish Water confirms huge drop in people paying water bills

The amount people paying their water bills has almost halved, Irish Water has confirmed. Irish Water said households paid €18.3m for drinking supplies and waste water treatment during January to March as new bills were sent out in April and May when the Government announced…

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61% of households have paid water bills, insist Irish Water

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Irish Water has said 61% of customers were paying water charges at the end of its third billing cycle, which covers the final three months of 2015. This compares to a payment rate of 55% for the third quarter of 2015, and 44% at the…

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Irish Water admits it will send out thousands of incorrect bills

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Irish Water has confirmed that it plans to send out water bills to more than 1.7 million households in the full knowledge that hundreds of thousands of those bills will be incorrect. The company said it has to operate on the basis of incomplete information…

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Landlords set to refuse to collect water charges from tenants

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The Residential Landlords Association is seeking an urgent meeting with Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly to talk about the water charge issue and who will be liable for water bills. Spokesperson Fintan McNamara has said its members are not in the business of "snitching…