Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have. I ask the Minister at the outset to reassure us that there is a point to us as a Dáil committee even discussing this because already it seems that we are discussing a commission at the end of the debate, when a chairman has been selected who has a preconceived outcome in his own mind as to what it should be.

When will we hear as a committee who else will be on this commission? Will the Dáil have the opportunity to consider who will be on the commission? Already, it seems, amendments on water metering, a referendum and other key issues related to water charges have been ruled out of order. It is the Bills Office that has decided this.