Agreed. We can't avoid the taxpayer paying for this - but we can decide which taxpayers pay for it.
Agreed. We can't avoid the taxpayer paying for this - but we can decide which taxpayers pay for it.I’d be happy if the standing charge for rural customers was increased.
They have been paying for it because rural standing charges are already much higher than urban and have increased dramatically in the last 5 years. Most of the lines and poles were put in decades ago so have been long paid for. Alot of the standing charge money was used to put in all those power lines and digging up roads to connect up windfarms , very expensive. I have seen the km of power lines and large numbers of contractors and machines necessary for this. These guys were not stringing power lines on poles to rural housesI’d be happy if the standing charge for rural customers was increased. Specifically people who like to live hundreds of metres from their neighbours and rely on electricity wires strung on poles which are vulnerable to high winds.
I know some people like that, lobbied councillors and a TD to help with planning permission so they could build, complained about the cost to connect to the power grid, complained about mobile and broadband coverage and complaining now about how long they were without power.Specifically people who like to live hundreds of metres from their neighbours
As usual, it's up to the urban dwellers to subsidise the cost of a minority's desire to live away from their neighbors.Agreed. We can't avoid the taxpayer paying for this - but we can decide which taxpayers pay for it.
to hear you escaped the worst of the ravages, however, hundreds of thousands didn't and I believe they are entitled to be compensated for that and the chaotic recovery services ESB has offered but not yet completed. For the record, my power cut was a couple of seconds in duration.
As usual, it's up to the urban dwellers to subsidise the cost of a minority's desire to live away from their neighbors.