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

We can never allow those charges.

And the other thing is, we shouldn't, the ordinary people should not be paying for data centre.

And on top of that, we can't be paying for their prices either.

But we need to look to the future because there is going to be water shortages across the planet, right?

And everyone has thought...

The guy, I don't know if you saw the big short, but he was the guy that made a lot of money in the 2008 financial crash.

And he has said that all of his money that he made from that, because he bet in the stock markets that time and he was one of the few guys that was right.

He has put all of his money into private water companies around the world.

He thinks it's the next oil, right?

There were a few parties around on that premise for a while back saying that

they would put it into the constitution, you know, but I do think that we, as we're already paying for it, I think that the government can do something in regards to maybe adding a tiny percentage, fraction of a percentage onto PRSI or whatever is needed for us to have an excellent water system.

There's no need, we're already paying.

Well, you see, the conservation picture, I don't think... Conservation, obviously, it's a question of percentage.

The percentage of money we're losing from pipes is much bigger than what you might do by, say, turning off the tap while you're brushing your teeth, say, right?

But I think that... Sorry, I know what the conservation... I keep using my train of thought.

It's desperate.

With the conservation, you've got that element and stuff like that, but the other thing is that the...

I honestly don't think so because I explained a few points about it.

It's alright for the school teacher and his wife and good salary paying water charges.

You take a pensioner, booked all his life, paid for his house

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