Results 22,981-23,000 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: The commission and the committee are two different things, so perhaps the Deputy might just take a look at what we are proposing to do before speaking on the amendment.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: To be helpful to the House, both of the amendments are with regard to the Oireachtas committee we are proposing to establish.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: There is no mention of the commission in either of the-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: Yes.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: Deputy, with respect, you did not assume that.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: We had a detailed conversation on Committee Stage on what exactly is being proposed. Perhaps Deputy Murphy does not understand the difference between the commission and the committee but others in his group do.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: Acting Chairman-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: Acting Chairman-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: May I respond?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: May I respond?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: May I make an intervention?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: It was not.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: Acting Chairman, I would like to say something.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: Could I clarify-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: I wish to clarify a number of matters. First, we are on Report and Final Stages of this short piece of legislation. There was an opportunity to debate many of the issues that Deputies Murphy, Coppinger and Smith raised on Second Stage. That is why we had a Second Stage. There was a further discussion on Committee Stage during which a number of these issues were raised, so the suggestion...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: We will then have an Oireachtas committee set up-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: -----which is what both of these amendments refer to. The committee will be set up in the normal way in the House. It will not be chosen by the Government alone. It will be fully representative of this House and will be set up in the normal way. That committee will consider the recommendations of the commission but will make its own recommendations and its own judgment on what the...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: -----the setting up of an Oireachtas committee, which-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: I have spoken about the commission on many occasions.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: We have had an opportunity to debate it but we are debating legislation here which does not provide specifically for that commission and the Deputy knows it. Amendment No. 9, again tabled by the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit, proposes to restrict approval of the membership and the composition of the proposed Oireachtas committee tasked with making recommendations on the...