Yesterday, following a number of communications and billing controversies, Irish Water was at the top of the agenda when Ministers met in Dublin.

It emerged earlier this week that Irish Water, in response to some of these issues, wanted to extend registration due by the 31st of this month until the end of November, to allow more customers sign up.

The Government replied by ordering a review of procedures and communications at the company.

Last night in the Dáil, the Environment Minister Alan Kelly, discussed the concerns about Irish Water.

With the latest developements, Newstalk Breakfast's Chris Donoghue and Ivan Yates talked about the affect this would have on the Governments' prospects in the next general election and what they could do to solve the problems:

Shane Coleman told Newstalk Breakfast this morning that "essentially there is a huge fear that water charges will sink the Government."

Coleman told Breakfast that the general feeling was that the Government need to do something in relation to water metering: