Water charges update
The email address for vendors’ solicitors contacting Irish Water has changed to section48requests@water.ie.
The committee has been notified by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government that vendors’ solicitors and vendors may use this new email address for correspondence relating to statements of amounts due, certificates of discharge, and statements that the owner is not liable for water charges, and by vendors’ solicitors for correspondence relating to notification of no net proceeds of sale and receipt of payment.
Solicitors acting for purchasers are reminded that they need not enquire with vendors’ solicitors as to whether vendors of dwellings have discharged water charges, as water charges are not a charge on dwellings. Only solicitors acting for vendors of dwellings have obligations under section 48 of the .
Practitioners are also reminded that section 47 of the above act obliges an owner of a dwelling to register with Irish Water or, if not in occupation, notify Irish Water that he/she is not the occupier and provide details (the date of commencement of any agreement for the occupation of the dwelling, and the name of each person with whom the owner has such an agreement for occupation) within 20 working days of any change in occupation of the dwelling.