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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: With respect, it is not a Second Stage contribution.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: We are entitled to try to understand the costs associated with implementing section 3. That is a perfectly reasonable thing for us as legislators to try to understand. How can we get from the Minister’s office the costs associated with implementing this section?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I just have.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Is that per year?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Can we come back in?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: It is in direct response to the Minister. I thank him for addressing the three questions I raised. I would like to go back to the three of them. The first one was about Arklow and, if I understood the Minister correctly, the rationale was that while there is no wastewater treatment facility in Arklow, or in 41 towns around the country, by charging for wastewater, it will raise funds to...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Maybe, but I am speaking specifically about Arklow. For the people of Arklow, the businesses and the residents who I represent, there is no argument that states we need to charge them for wastewater in order to fund the wastewater treatment plant because the funding for that is in place through the taxes they already pay. If that is the rationale, why is it not being applied to boil water...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Fine. Let me broaden it.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Let me broaden it. For any of the 42 towns around the country, where funding has already been identified, the argument the Minister put forward clearly does not apply. Can he give another rationale because the one he gave does not apply to any of those 42 towns? The figure the Minister provided is that the cost of billing per year will be €150 million.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: What is the annual cost of metering, billing and customer service? There is a package of activities specifically related to charging people for water.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Section 3 is the key section for the legislation. There are three points I wish to raise and three questions I would like the Minister to address. I tabled amendment No. 17, which the Ceann Comhairle ruled out of order along with others. This regarded the seeking of a reduction in charges in charges for residents in towns where there is no wastewater treatment facilities. I provided the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (11 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies which had Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loans that were sold by KPMG to third parties, have since been put into liquidation where the liquidator was KPMG; his views on the potential conflict of interest in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47540/14]

Palestine: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (10 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: I am pleased to speak in support of the motion, which will see Dáil Éireann officially recognise the state of Palestine. I am glad to see this recognition based on the 1967 border, as called for in numerous UN resolutions and by activists like the late Edward Said and the people of Palestine. A two-state solution has long been the goal of the Palestinian people. It was recognised...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Perhaps the Minister could raise at the Cabinet table that these Standing Orders need to be changed to allow us to do the job of Parliament. In terms of the substance of the change, I have no doubt the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, as a Labour Minister, would act against any privatisation. The question is why I and others want to move beyond a plebiscite to constitutional protection. The...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: Rather than the plebiscite that the Minister proposes, I tabled a Bill looking to alter Article 10 of the Constitution - a simple line stating that the water supply could not be sold into private ownership - but it was ruled out of order by the Ceann Comhairle using a new Standing Order that was never meant to be used in that way. I wanted, in the Dáil, to criticise the Ceann Comhairle...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (9 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 469. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the speed limits that apply to residential areas that have not yet been taken in charge by the relevant local authority; if there are mechanisms in place to modify these speed limits using local by-laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46924/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (9 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 470. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the recently announced pilot programme for the reduction of speed limits to 30 km/hr in residential areas applies to all residential areas and estates in a local authority area, including those that have not yet been taken in charge by the authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46927/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Grant Payments (4 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 216. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are restrictions on bankrupts successfully applying for grants from her Department, or from any of the bodies that award arts grants for which her Department is responsible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46603/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (3 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection regarding the recent OECD report, OECD Reviews of Pensions Systems: Ireland, which recommended the introduction of mandatory pensions, if her Department has undertaken any comparative analysis of different options, that is, an auto enrolment option as oppose to mandatory pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46471/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (2 Dec 2014)

Stephen Donnelly: 247. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the investor State dispute resolution institution proposed under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; his further views at the potential for such an institution to put corporate interests above the legal institutions of the Irish State; his plans to deal with such a possibility; and if he will make a...