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Water Sector Reforms: Motion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2014)

Noel Harrington: ...model through which such schemes were delivered is broken. Local authorities can no longer borrow to deliver schemes and can barely address many of the day to day maintenance issues of the water supply and waste water networks. This is the situation in a background of ever increasing and appropriate supervision and regulation through EU directives. The patchwork quilt of 31 different...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Oct 2013)

Noel Harrington: ...and deliberation on county and local development plans. Apart from that there was nothing and we were entirely dependent on information and resolutions coming from the executive and the county managers, as well as circulars and policies from central government. It just did not exist. Every argument that has been made about keeping government at the lowest level and closest to the...

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Noel Harrington: ...debt from €39 billion in 1997 to a crippling €119 billion in 2011, or 94% of gross national product, has been catastrophic for the country. One could ask where the money was spent and whether it was managed well for taxpayers or, as we suspect, if the then Government had bought the electorate with its own money or if it had borrowed the money and spent it on mismanaged...