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Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am happy with my response.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy asked me earlier if I was aware of the set-up cost of Uisce Éireann and I said I was.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is €180 million. Deputy Martin accuses me now of not making that public.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Second, as Uisce Éireann has taken responsibility-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----for the distribution and management and investment in Uisce Éireann for the future-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy not want the answer?

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will make it a little clearer for the Deputy again. Uisce Éireann-Irish Water will be subject to the full rigours of the Freedom of Information Act.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: From its inception.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: From its inception last year. Uisce Éireann will be subject to the Freedom of Information Act from the moment it was set up.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: This is about transparency, accountability and determining and telling the people-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----the services for which the contracts were awarded-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----in the interests of investment in a situation where we cannot go on as we have been for years.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: We are spending €1.2 billion every year at the moment in dealing with water. The savings over seven years are estimated at €1.1 billion.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: In order to create the utility, we have to invest money to have it at the highest level at which it should operate.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin understands this himself because he has been around the wheel a few times over the years-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: This will be open to freedom of information and parliamentary questions. The Minister, Deputy Hogan, is due to speak here on Deputy Martin's party's motion later this evening, and he will answer any question in detail that the Deputy wants to ask him.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has had a few debacles himself. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is the one responsible for the Freedom of Information Act.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Above anybody else, the Minister, Deputy Howlin, has done more than many of his predecessors to make public information available through this Act.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: In respect of this Bill, when the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, was dealing with this, he read from what the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform had said. These were Deputy Howlin's words:Irish Water was only recently established and another Bill is under way [that is the Bill in the Seanad] ... which will provide for a structured reporting mechanism to the Oireachtas and the...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----because it is funded by the taxpayer to this point. The same will apply in respect of questions from Deputies who wish to ask parliamentary questions-----