Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER

3:50 pm

Photo of Kevin HumphreysKevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Irish Water is often compared to Scottish Water. In regard to standing charges, in the UK they use a standing charge that is related to one's rates. The regulator would not envisage that the standing charge would be related to property tax in Ireland.