Anne (Anne Thormey - primary proponent arguing we should pay for water)

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Liveline · "We don't seem to want to pay for necessary things" · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

But you can set a standard use.

above which you don't pay.

And by the way, we all paid a property tax that was introduced a decade or so ago, and I didn't see any change in my... anything in my life from the property tax.

I don't have street, I don't get my waste collected, I don't get chargers on the streets for me to... So why wasn't that...

introduced as a charge to provide for water services, especially in the density of the city area.

So there are ways of doing it.

It's not very expensive, Ciarán.

It really isn't very expensive.

But I'm fairly well off.

I can't complain.

But I do not waste water in either country.

If you get something for nothing, you tend not to be careful.

I wouldn't disagree with that either, to be honest with you.

I think that's fair.

I think excessive use...

But you can say, like we've now meters in for over a decade.

The reason I protested in 2000, 2011, that 10-11, was because what I saw was the government were in desperate need of money and they were putting together, clearly putting in meters and putting together a company that could easily be sold off as a private entity.

But why didn't they fix the leaks first?

Fix the leaks first.

I agree with you.

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