03 January, 2011

Northern Ireland Water

Anyone who goes to Northern Ireland will know that it is always raining. It seems scarcely credible, therefore, that thousands of people in the Province have been without water for weeks, as Northern Ireland Water failed to supply them.

The people of Northern Ireland deserve a Department of Sanitation which can at least supply the sort of service you might find in Egypt or Nigeria, and should give consideration to this at the next elections.

As to the water company itself it has become a sort of subsidised care home for the worthy but inept. It shuold have been sold off years ago, in which case either the water supply would have been maintained because the regulator would have overseen the investment levels, or the state coffers would be swelling with massive fines imposed on a Utlilities Company.

Resignations, please, beginning with the minister and the chairman of the water company.

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