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Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: You will tell me everything. It was all explained this morning. We have made two points on this - there is no grant scheme and the standards are very unclear and broad.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: It is. The Oireachtas Library and Research Service, which is independent of all parties and is to be complimented, states in its document that this is liable to cost householders thousands of euro.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Is the Minister saying the service did not understand this?

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Minister has said that the service does not know the standards. Does he suggest that the service is wrong? That is one of the key problems with this. The Oireachtas Library and Research Service is independent of all of us and of the Government, and thank God for it. It has stated that this legislation could cost householders thousands, but the Minister and his party continue to ignore...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Absolutely, if they pollute.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We support that.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: Nobody is saying anything different.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: We are not talking about that. This is an extra burden on ordinary people. The pollution laws are already in place.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That is a reason to oppose this legislation. They are taxed enough.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Senator and all his neighbours will be charged an extra €50 when they are already paying out for it.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That was leaked by the Minister.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I thank the Senator for that insult.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That is a civil penalty. We are talking about criminal penalties.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That is the argument Senator Gilroy made about fishermen.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That is what negotiations are for.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Sinn Féin Party Members seem to have missed this element of the motion when drawing up their amendment.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I second the amendment. We have reached an extraordinary juncture when both the Government and Sinn Féin, because it has not amended the particular part of the motion, support the development of privately owned grids.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I have. It does not amend the reference in question but merely proposes to append an additional paragraph to the motion.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I do not know who wrote the motion. It cannot have been a Fine Gael Party activist because it does not refer to that party's commitment to the North-South power line going under ground but merely calls for it to be built as soon as possible. How does that correspond with the view expressed by the Fine Gael Party before and after the election that the North-South pylon system should go under...

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: There is no mention in the Senator's amendment of the North-South power line. The Fine Gael Party gave an unequivocal undertaking not only to place it under ground but also to pay the North East Pylon Pressure Campaign €500,000 in respect of costs incurred. In regard to the east-west connector, it seems nobody spoke to the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, who promised to reroute...