Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have questions on two tranches of legislation.

First, given the miraculous appearance and disappearance of deadlines around water charges, a phenomenon that is now nearly akin to the moving statues, could we get some clarity from the Taoiseach as to when the new water services Bill will be published and when it will be debated? Can we get an absolute commitment that it will not be rammed through, guillotined, or decided in an overly short or contracted debate, rather that there would be adequate time for us to look at the legislation, to debate it and to scrutinise it, as it should be? Maybe he could give us some indication, because there is no clarity to my mind as to exactly what is going to be in this piece of legislation.

My second question is on the aftercare Bill, the draft heads of which were discussed last year. This Bill relates to young people who are in State care and are then released from State care and have nothing. Many of them have no supports and many find a direct route into homelessness and drug and alcohol problems, and we find them on our streets. Could the Taoiseach tell us when the aftercare Bill will come to this House?

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