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Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The EirGrid Bill is not due to be published until next year, but this does not mean that issues of concern to many people will not be the subject of some serious discussion and analysis.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will look at it for the Deputy.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is listed for this session.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Chairmen of the respective committees have authority to put forward their own business schedule. Everybody is aware of the programme arising from each Whips' meeting so it is a case of management. We have a short enough time in the week to get all of these things in line. It is not the first time this has happened. Chairmen should be cognisant of the outcome of Whips' meetings, which...

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Government Whip meets committee Chairmen to discuss these issues.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin has raised several issues, if I may say so. Clearly, last year it was perfectly obvious from Government that the cost of the establishment of Irish Water would have a headline figure of €180 million. PricewaterhouseCoopers carried out an analysis and recommended that there be a greenfield operation. The Government is about making decisions. Since the setting up of a...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----I remind Deputy Martin that his party now favours a continuation of the status quo, that is, 34 local authorities with all the staff contained therein and with higher costs. What Deputy Martin wants to do is leave the situation as is. That means he is happy for 18,000 people to have boil water notices and he is happy to have a million homes where there is a need for serious action in...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: This needs to be dealt with. The way to deal with it is by setting up a new utility, Irish Water, with the capacity to borrow on the open markets for infrastructural development to provide for the needs of our country for the next 50 years.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin may be happy to leave it the way it is, but I am not. There is nothing secret about Irish Water. Any more information Deputy Martin wants to be published about it will be published. I have given that instruction to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to see that Irish Water puts up all the information on its website.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: This is in order that Deputy Healy-Rae and all the others have access to that as well as the public.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: This is a publicly owned utility and therefore there will be nothing secret about it.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: There may be areas, as Deputy Martin is well aware, where there is commercial detail that is particular to Irish Water. However, the majority of information about this utility is public knowledge and, if it is not, it will continue to become public knowledge in the time ahead.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: There has been a lot of talk about accepting advice. As I pointed out to the Deputy last week, the Government of which he was a member paid €7 million for three days work by financial advisers before landing this country with the greatest economic catastrophe it has ever experienced. His Government did not accept that advice. Deputy Martin should not come in here claiming a...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: We also had people on the benches opposite saying that thousands of euro in charges would be heaped on top of people under the property tax. Members opposite are all on record as having said that. As I said, in the coming weeks the Government will publish the financial and business models for Irish Water. The only charges to be incurred here will be in respect of consumers, that is, the...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Government will deliver the level of charge as a matter of policy and the regulator will have an input into that. It is about the Irish consumer.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure what the Deputy's position is now in terms of whether he supports the Minister in what he is doing here. The central tenet of what the Minister has done is to keep respect and integrity in the Garda Síochána and in the process here. As Deputy Adams is well aware, the Committee of Public Accounts, over many years, always had an independence within the Houses of the...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: I find it peculiar that Deputy Adams should raise the question of whistleblowers in the first place. He used to have a very different way of dealing with them himself.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Tabharfaidh mé freagra don Teachta ar an cheist a chuir sé orm. Ta an Coimisiún Ombudsman an Gharda Síochána fíor neamhspleách agus ní féidir liomsa rud ar bith a dhéanamh leis. Leagann an coimisiún síos na coinníollacha agus déanann sé féin an iniúchadh. Bhí mé ag éisteacht le duine...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Tá a fhios agam cén cheist a chur an Teachta orm.

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Enda Kenny: Tá fhios agam, ach táim ag tabhairt freagra don Teachta faoin gcoimisiún. Chuir an Teachta ceist orm faoin Coiste um Chuntais Phoiblí. Of course, the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts relates to value for money as opposed to matters of governance.