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990,000 households register for water chargesThursday 19 March 2015 20.23 About two thirds of those who are liable to pay water charges to Irish Water have now registered with the utility. Irish Water says 990,000 customers have registered out of an estimated customer base of 1.5 million. 1.237 million people have registered in total. This figure includes those who will not be customers of Irish Water, but have logged their details for the purposes of claiming the €100 Water Conservation Grant. Irish Water is urging those who have not yet done so to register, in order to be eligible to claim the grant. The company says the Minister for the Environment will announce a deadline by which households must register with Irish Water in order to be eligible for the grant, in due course. Irish Water says it is expecting the registration process to accelerate in the coming weeks ahead of the start of billing next month. The company says it will begin sending bills out in April, but due to the large volume of customers, this will be done on a phased basis over an eight-week billing cycle, meaning that some customers will not get a bill until June. A spokesperson for Irish Water said customers could expect to get water bills approximately every 12 weeks. Meanwhile, TDs affiliated to the Right2Water campaign called for a massive turnout for Saturday's national water charge demonstration. Protesters will assemble at three locations in Dublin at 1pm - Connolly Station, Heuston Station and Merrion Square - before converging on O'Connell Bridge and holding a rally on O'Connell Street. All the speakers at the launch stressed that the event would be peaceful and family friendly. They also said the demonstration will conclude as close to 2.30pm as possible to facilitate those who wish to watch Ireland's final Six Nations game against Scotland. The campaign has also condemned what it termed "monumental waste" at Irish Water following revelations that the company intends spending well over half a billion euro on an advertising campaign to advise Irish people that the water that we use requires treatment to make it drinkable. Right2Water spokesperson Brendan Ogle said, "it is extremely patronising to assume that citizens need to be told that clean drinking water requires treatment." "For Irish Water to spend massive amounts of public money to tell people what they already know is one more indication that this company is out of control.
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Beagnach milliún teaghlach cláraithe le hUisce ÉireannDéardaoin 19 Márta 2015 14.54 Deir Uisce Éireann go bhfuil dhá thrian de na daoine a bhfuil dliteanas táillí uisce orthu cláraithe anois leo. Sin 990,000 custaiméir atá cláraithe as na 1.5 milliún a mheastar a bheith ann. 1,270,000 duine san iomlán atá cláraithe anois le hUisce Éireann. Áirítear san fhigiúr seo daoine nach custaiméirí reatha iad ach atá cláraithe chun an Deontas Caomhnaithe Uisce €100 a éileamh. Tá Uisce Éireann ag taobhú le daoine nár chláraigh fós é sin a dhéanamh ar mhaithe leis an deontas a éileamh. Deir an comhlacht go bhfógróidh an tAire Comhshaoil spriocdháta in am trátha faoina mbeidh ar theaghlaigh clárú más mian leo cur isteach ar an deontas. Tá súil ag Uisce Eireann, a deir siad, go mbeidh borradh faoin bpróiséas cláraithe sna seachtainí amach romhainn sula n-eiseofar na chéad bhillí an mhí seo chugainn. Deir an comhlacht go dtosófar ag eisiúint billí i mí Aibreáin, ach go ndéanfar seo ina chéimeanna in imeacht ocht seachtaine de bharr an líon ollmhór custaiméirí atá ann. Fágann sé seo nach bhfaighidh roinnt custaiméirí aon bhille go dtí mí an Mheithimh. Tá súil go n-eiseofar billí do chustaiméirí feasta gach 12 sheachtain.