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Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not know if Deputy Healy washes his car three times per week. As we set out at the beginning, a free allowance will be provided and thereafter a charge based on usage will apply. While I do not know what Deputy Healy will be charged next January, I will be able to tell him before the local elections, based on the business and financial model published by the Government and debated in...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: Together, these will determine the average charge.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The details to which Deputy Healy refers must all be worked out. The end result will not be in excess of the average charge determined by Government decision. The Government is the only body that can make the decision on what will be the average charge. There are a couple of issues here. The Government produces a business and financial model, and the subvention included determines the...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 7a, motion re membership of committees and No. 20, statements on the recent flooding. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 7a shall be decided without debate; the proceedings on No. 20 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 7.30 p.m. and the following arrangements shall apply: the statement of a Minister...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The answer to the Deputy's question is "No". How can I know the water usage of individual households?

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: Let us be clear - what I said was-----

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: We are not having the runaway train about which Deputy Cowen spoke before.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: When I say that householders will know the charge that will apply to them, I mean the average charge that will apply.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I find it truly extraordinary that Deputy Martin as the leader of Fianna Fáil would come in here and ask that individual charges be made known before the local elections.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I made it very clear that the charge-----

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----that will be known by people is the average charge based on the subvention being given by Government. The bill for the charges will apply from January. They will be used from September onwards. Deputy Martin is asking me to tell him before the local elections what charge will apply to him.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am telling the Deputy. He does not want to accept this.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The average charge per household will be known before the local elections-----

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----because the subvention determines that average charge. The regulator was correct in what he said at the committee meeting. The policy issue can only be decided by Government. This will be known and published before the local elections.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I dealt with the other matter raised by the Deputy earlier this morning.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I did. I also dealt with before I came into the House. The position is that the wording is as the Deputy says but there is a provision in the law whereby these matters can be reported to the Minister for Justice.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The GSOC has said it regrets that it did not report the matter to the Minister.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I said that-----

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: I will come back to Deputy McDonald from the point of view of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, in respect of the regulations to be laid. The consumer protection and competition Bill is well advanced and will be published in this session. We will have an opportunity to debate the matter fully. For the third time, I accept that the wording of the legislation in...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The promised legislation has gone through. People will elect councillors this year. Those councillors will have a direct impact in respect of the property charge, commercial rates, parking charges and so on as they relate to towns and main streets throughout the country. I understand a new inquiry is being followed through by the Garda in respect of the survivors of the Stardust tragedy....