Domestic water charges will not be introduced in Northern Ireland

In a statement issued on Sunday in advance of an Assembly debate on the issue on Monday, the Department of Infrastructure said the minister, Sinn Féin’s John O’Dowd, had “ruled out household water charges as solutions for the future funding of NI Water”.

He said he was “in no doubt that we can collectively find the solution by truly and demonstrably valuing essential public services such as water and funding them appropriately”. However, the restoration of Northern Ireland’s powersharing government earlier this year means any such decision would be made at Stormont, not Westminster.

A report last month by the Northern Ireland Audit Office into the funding of water infrastructure in the North had suffered from decades-long underinvestment compared to other parts of the UK and recent funding shortfalls, and this needed to be addressed to develop a “modern and effective network.”

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