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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: I am grateful for the opportunity to present and discuss the proposed Supplementary Estimate for the 2014 Vote of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, for which I am seeking approval. The Supplementary Estimate covers two elements of the Department’s Vote, the Leader programme and recoupment to local authorities of costs incurred during the storms of last...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: I thank both members for raising very important points on the subheads. I welcome the Deputies' support for the Leader programme, which is recognised as a very important source of funding for rural development. For 2015, €45 million has been identified and secured to fund the Leader programme, comprising €30 million from the old programme and €15 million from the new...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: I fully support Irish Water.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: I did.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy will be chasing them around with a hound.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: Conspiracy theories.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: The Deputy campaigned on it.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Broughan should not be making personal comments.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: Deputy Broughan is the dame.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: We have told you ten times.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: It is administered like every other grant.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: It is the same as the Department of Social Protection. It is the same as the Christmas bonus.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: The Department of Social Protection does.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: The Opposition is quite cleverly trying to be obstructive by-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: It is being very obstructive by trying to stitch the allocation of a conservation grant that will allow people across the country, in rural and urban areas, a €100 payment to assist them in conserving water in their households. That is not an Irish Water expenditure, it is an allocation-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: It is an estimated allocation from the Government to assist people in conserving water. It has nothing to do with Irish Water expenditure.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: It is a conservation grant allocated to households to assist them in conserving water.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: It is not an Irish Water expenditure. The Opposition is cleverly trying to obstruct the debate. That is its form of protest on the floor of the Dáil-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: -----by trying to stitch it into Irish Water expenditure. That is what it is doing. There is nothing to stop the Government evaluating the number of registrations for this grant and if there are more registrations the grant will be paid to those people.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Paudie Coffey: The allocation that has been made in the Estimate is €130 million. If that needs to be upped it will be upped. It is as simple as that.