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Written Answers — Department of Health: Charities Regulation (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 428. To ask the Minister for Health his discussions regarding the charity Console and the funding it received; if he will examine the spending of public funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19732/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 447. To ask the Minister for Health if a vacancy for a speech and language therapist for adults in Dublin West will be filled (details supplied); to report on the current length of the waiting list for these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19114/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: 573. To ask the Minister for Health his discussions regarding the charity Console and the funding it received; if he has asked the Health Service Executive or his Department to audit the funding given; the safeguard provisions he is putting in place for the services provided by this charity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19731/16]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I wish to mention three aspects while the Minister is here and because the commission has been mentioned. Before the Minister came in here I raised a procedural point. I believe a section on the commission should be inserted into the Bill. Also, its membership should have to come before Dáil Éireann for approval. The events of the past weekend have clearly brought home to us...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Sorry, if the Chairman does not mind. My query is relevant because the commission is being set up by this Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: The Minister might want to agree to such an assertion. My second query is on ministerial amendment No. 2. When the Minister says its purpose is to allow a period of deliberation during this nine-month period he should also accept that the installation of water meters is a real infringement on any period of deliberation. He should accept some of the amendments on the matter that were...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Are they?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Has amendment No. 3 been ruled out of order?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Again, this is a matter for the Bills Office and not anyone else.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is funny how the committee or Minister do not make the decision but somebody sitting in the Bills Office makes the decision.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On what grounds?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: On the issue of reassurance that the Minister raised in response to the point of privatisation, privatisation can happen under any government. It does not matter if we take his word for it. This Government is very much in favour of privatisation. Broadband is to be privatised. The health service potentially would have been privatised so one can understand why people hold such a view. On...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: It is the issue of reassurance-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I wonder what we are doing here, or whether we are simply wasting our time. We have had a commission established with a Chairman who has already got a preconceived outcome-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Chairman, are you interested in facilitating a discussion on one of the major issues that is being debated in the country?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I have. I ask the Minister at the outset to reassure us that there is a point to us as a Dáil committee even discussing this because already it seems that we are discussing a commission at the end of the debate, when a chairman has been selected who has a preconceived outcome in his own mind as to what it should be. When will we hear as a committee who else will be on this...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: Equally, they could be dealt with in this Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: I would like to comment.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee (5 Jul 2016)

Ruth Coppinger: This is a serious issue because the impression given by the new coalition was that an independent commission had been established with an independent chair. People can have personal views and, as the Minister stated, we all have personal views on issues. However, the chairman, in advance of the commission's establishment, has expressed strong views that are opinionated and biased in the...