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

Brian Stanley: I see Deputy Walsh has been joined from the bar on the back line.

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

Brian Stanley: Irish Water sent out 2 million packs but the figures from the census states that there are 1.65 million occupied households. This is the key point. The legislation state that it shall only be paid to households where the occupier of a dwelling has registered and has provided the information to the Minister for Social Protection. We are clearly talking about occupied households and the...

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

Brian Stanley: We were here the other night until 1.30 a.m. The Government hoped this would be done out of the glare of the media, that the press gallery would be empty and that everybody would have gone home. Here it is tonight trying to get this through without the proper figures. I propose, if there is a seconder, that we adjourn the House.

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

Brian Stanley: Sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, that is a formal proposal.

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

Brian Stanley: I have a seconder.

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

Brian Stanley: I would like to make a point about the collection of the €100 grant. We are being told that if we pay for this, some €100 in taxes will be taken off us with one hand and handed back to us with the other hand. Then it will be counted as income for Irish Water.

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

Brian Stanley: It is fantasy economics. We know now that we have heard fantasy figures here tonight.

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

Brian Stanley: I want to address the point that was made by the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, a minute ago. He said that if more money is needed-----

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

Brian Stanley: -----to fund it-----

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

Brian Stanley: -----that money will be provided. That means he is talking about the number of people Irish Water expects to register, as opposed to the number of households. The Minister, Deputy Kelly, said for an hour and a half that he was talking about the number of occupied households. The Minister and the Minister of State cannot agree on this.

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

Brian Stanley: We have fantasy figures, fantasy economics-----

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

Brian Stanley: -----and we have a fantasy Bill. We should quit this here tonight. I am proposing again that we adjourn this debate until next Tuesday to allow the Minister and his departmental officials to come back here with proper figures.

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

Brian Stanley: The whole thing is a bloody farce.

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

Brian Stanley: We should call it off.

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

Brian Stanley: The Government will be the laughing stock of Europe. It is not a conservation grant to give people €100 with no conservation. Where is the conservation in that? There is no conservation in it and the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, knows that. He is coming in here with bluff and bluster. He is the laugh of Europe.

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

Brian Stanley: It is a bribe.

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

Brian Stanley: It is the Fine Gael way.

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

Brian Stanley: The taxpayer.

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

Brian Stanley: Millionaires.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (11 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: 17. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the planned wind farm project in the midlands by a company (details supplied), in view of the fact that the planned export of wind generated electricity to Britain was shelved. [47118/14]