yes we're happy to pay the charges for the duration of our occupancy, the difficulty we're faced with is that the charges are for the duration prior to our occupancy - hence our landlords responsibility (he was the occupant then before he moved to Spain). However as he's not paid the bill we're left with the result, DCC won't take any more rubbish.
We pay the rent by DD into his Irish bank account, we haven't yet applied for rent relief. There is no Irish agent who act on his behalf, just him on e-mail (when it suits him).