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That's pretty much what is happening now in Ireland. Irish Water is asking for PPS numbers for all the children in a household and for the main householder. PPS
by mikegriff 12y ago
That's pretty much what is happening now in Ireland. Irish Water is asking for PPS numbers for all the children in a household and for the main householder. PPS numbers are similar to Social Security numbers in the US.
At the moment Irish Water is a semi state body, but there are large fears that it will be sold off to a private company in a few years, along with the PPS numbers and details of everyone in Ireland.
There was a large demonstration against it last weekend [1]
[1] http://www.thejournal.ie/water-charge-protest-in-dublin-1718557-Oct2014/ http://www.thejournal.ie/water-charge-protest-in-dublin-1718...
- merrua 12y agoThe fear might be strengthened by the fact someone admitted that was the plan and it went on wikileaks
- rmc 12y agoYup. Irish person here. Hence how I know. Now, I'm not saying that the way IW is doing it well, or that PPS numbers are a good approach. But the idea that "How will they know?" is some sort of unanswerable, impossible question is silly.