There will not be an installation charge for the householder because that cost will be covered as a loan from the National Pension Reserve Fund to the department. There will be a cost for the meter itself. – Taoiseach Enda Kenny assures the public there will be no charge for the installation of water meters
Similar to how other regulated utilities are funded globally, the cost of the meters and the delivery of service will be passed on to the consumers. – Department of the Environment spokesman offers a different view
No decision has yet been made on how water meters are to be paid for. – Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore offers a different view again
I expect that installation will start in October and that households will be charged from 2014. – Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan attempts to clarify the situation, saying the cost of installing meters will probably be passed on to customers via a standing charge over a period of 20 years
The Government said it would do everything in its power to keep people in their homes. For a wholly-owned State bank to send these people out here, to behave in the way they did . . . in an absolutely brutal manner . . . people are incensed and incredulous at what has taken place . . . we might as well be back in the 19th century. – Brendan Kelly (71), who along with his German-born wife Asta (63) were turned out of their home at St Matthias Wood, Killiney, on Wednesday, on foot of an eviction order granted to Irish Nationwide Building Society – now Irish Bank Resolution Corporation – in June 2010
Where people are looking at that home in terms of fiscal value, we are looking at it in terms of meaning because it has a lot of meaning. – Occupy Dame Street spokesman Finbar Markey, commenting on the Killiney eviction
Your Government has failed to establish itself as the government of law and order. So far, you have been soft on crime, soft on the causes of crime and soft on the proceeds of crime. – Outgoing Garda Representative Association president Damien McCarthy clashes with Minister for Justice Alan Shatter at the GRA annual conference