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- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Enough is enough as far as I am concerned on this issue. This is long overdue, probably 50 years overdue. Many people became secretaries of group water schemes and went to knock on their neighbours' doors to ask for small contributions to dig the road, to get the road opening licence and to lay the pipework with voluntary labour because the local authorities could not afford it because they...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: This is the first time in the history of the State that they have got anything. I welcome the Government's decision to give people something back. I welcome that the water conservation grant will do a small amount in terms of enhancing those people's positions in the delivery of water services on which they have been failed by local authorities under successive governments. This is not...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----which is to say to people - I am speaking to the amendment and I am speaking to Deputy Stanley's contribution.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I am actually speaking to Deputy Stanley's contribution and I listened to all of it-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I watched his contribution on the monitor and it made for very good television. Deputy Stanley is getting a bit hot under the collar now because maybe the truth is beginning to hurt a bit.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: All of a sudden those people around Emo and south County Laois down around the Kilkenny border that are on group water schemes and have septic tanks, they might now begin to see the real Deputy Stanley-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----the anti-rural Ireland Deputy Stanley and the anti-rural Ireland Sinn Féin-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I know that the other two Deputies are really anti-rural Ireland so in fairness I will not go too hard on them because they have a huge problem-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----with everyone who lives in the country. They have a huge problem with farmers, with everybody who lives outside the M50. Therefore, in fairness to those two Deputies I will not go down that road with them.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: However, I am surprised that a rural Deputy would come out in the way he has-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----and attack a payment which is being given for the first time to anybody who provides his or her own water. I listened to last night's debate and this anti-rural agenda that is being driven by a very narrow sect-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: What is remarkable is that the bulk of the rural Fianna Fáil Deputies have nothing to say on this because they are in favour of it as a lot of Fianna Fáil Deputies-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Yes, he is on the record, in fairness to him.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: A lot of Fianna Fáil Deputies, like myself, are engaging with group water schemes on a weekly basis, dealing with problems such as leakages, broken pumps, broken UV lamps and chlorine and fluorine that needs to be bought. Deputy Coppinger might laugh at it but she has not got one scintilla of a clue-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----of what it is to live in a rural community and provide one's own services because in Deputy Coppinger's Utopia everything just arrives at one's doorstep and there is no need to pay for it. However, in my part of the country that is not the way things work. In my part of the country, people go out and form a group water scheme, they bore their own well and they provide their own water....
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Coppinger can attack farmers all she likes but it does not behove the Opposition. I hope the Fianna Fáil Party in particular will disassociate itself from the scurrilous attacks being made on the farming community because it does not do anyone any good and it certainly does not do their case any good. Like everybody else, farmers are paying commercial water rates all their...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----have had way too many burdens-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----placed on them by people like Deputy Coppinger who do not have a clue of what it is to operate in the commercial reality. The philosophy being pursued in the amendments and the contributions are the very same philosophies that have people queueing outside bank machines in Greece trying to take out €60.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: That is the reality and that is what we have descended to in this House. We are taking a very basic commodity, the most basic commodity one needs to sustain any sort of an existence. We want to make it safe and we want to ensure that the supply is intact, that the pipes do not leak, that the pumps work and, most important, that we can tell people who come into the country that they can hold...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----so for people to say that they have a difficulty in transferring the liability and the funding stream across-----