Results 2,261-2,280 of 12,318 for speaker:Paul Murphy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: The key item we heard from Scottish Water and Welsh Water last week was that it is not necessary to have domestic water meters to find leaks in people's homes, which is the perception that existed. Can the witnesses confirm that is the case and that individual leaks in households can be found through district metering and the mechanisms that exist in sonar technology for finding where the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: To follow up on that, there is a suggestion that we will have to introduce excessive usage charges to stop people wasting water. However, it is currently illegal for people to allow water to be wasted or to fail to prevent it from being wasted under the Water Services Act 2007. In fact, councils use that legislation to deal with those who blatantly have a leak on their property but have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: There are currently processes in place, even without an excessive usage charge, to deal with the very top end of the curve to which Mr. Grant refers, in terms of those-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: In the past some of the councils, South Dublin County Council in particular, invested significant resources in dealing with leaks, both public leaks and those in peoples' homes and that had a significant impact as I understand it. Mr. Grant made the point that the vast majority of water is lost in the mains rather than on private land. The figures in his presentation show that 82% of all...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I wish to share time with Deputies Ruth Coppinger and Richard Boyd Barrett.
- Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I have zero confidence in this Government for a lot of reasons, but they were crystallised this week when we got a glimpse of the dark, rotten and sinister underbelly of the Irish State, namely, the black propaganda campaign that has been alleged to have come from the top of An Garda Síochána. The response of the Government to the exposure gives a glimpse of the threat to people's...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: US Preclearance Facilities at State Airports (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: 107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 338 of 2 February 2017, if she has received the report requested on a review of US preclearance here. [7027/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: He will get a chance to come back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Just like the officials' view.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Yes, it is, because they are not judges.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: It is for the Chairman to allow interjections.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: It sounds like we are at the European Court of Justice already. It is nothing personal when I say I do not believe the European Commission is respecting the political process here. It is doing the very opposite. I refer to the letters sent to the expert commission and the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney. I suggest Mr. Ciobanu-Dordea's presentation was designed to state we did not have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: That is not the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Yes, but there is inconsistency in the witness's answers that he is simply not acknowledging. In 2010, it clearly says that it kicks in when this is an established practice at the time of the adoption of the directive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: But that was the answer that was given in 2010.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Okay, then the answer has changed. That is fine. At least we have an acknowledgement that the answer has changed. The second point relates to established practice. Why does the Deputy think the word "established" exists in article 9(4)? What the witness explained as established is just a matter of practice or of something changing. If something changes over time, there is a different...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I have never paid water charges in this country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: Therefore there is not an established practice of water charges in this country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)
Paul Murphy: I have read it to the very end.