Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 25:

In page 7, to delete lines 10 to 13 and substitute the following:"(3) Where a dwelling is in receipt of one service in respect of water services provided by Irish Water, that is to say--

(a) the supply of water to the dwelling, or

(b) the removal of waste water from it,

then the maximum charge that Irish Water may charge for that service in respect of the dwelling is an amount that is 50 per cent less than the amount that would be charged for water services to the dwelling in accordance with subsection (1) but for this subsection.".

The reason for this amendment relating to the late payment fees that Irish Water can charge is essentially the same as the reason behind amendment No. 16. This amendment rewords the existing subsection (3) and provides that, where a dwelling is in receipt of one service from Irish Water, the maximum late payment charge that Irish Water can charge is 50% of the relevant late payment charge set out in subsection (1). Therefore, the late payment charge that will apply to a house that is either in receipt of a water supply and discharges wastewater into a septic tank or in receipt of water from a private well or other source and discharges wastewater into public sewers will be €15 per annum. The previous wording also provided for this, but the amended subsection makes it much clearer.

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