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- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (11 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: 199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the scheme involving householders in County Kildare regarding pyrite will be extended to the rest of the State. [47698/14]
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: On a point of order-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: There is a question of accuracy in regard to figures.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: We have not been given the figures. We asked the Minister-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: -----to qualify those figures overnight. We asked him to come back with the figures today and to clarify them. I ask that they be clarified before we vote on this.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: I move amendment No. 29:In page 8, line 32, after “Water” to insert the following:“including householders, commercial water users and representatives of the trade unions with members in Irish Water”.Section 7 deals with the establishment of the public water forum, the purpose of which is supposed to be to ensure that people will be represented in some fashion and...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: Thanks, Deputy.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: The Deputy can telephone his party leader, the Taoiseach, as he up there today and ask him.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Creighton does not understand what a householder, a commercial water user or representative of a trade union is. I know she has a particular problem with trade unions. A member of a trade union is a representative of a worker in Irish Water. A householder is someone who lives in a house, a flat or an apartment who has a public water supply to it. A commercial water user is someone...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: You need to stay quiet and stop giving out false information.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: You need to start dealing with the facts.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: I am asking the Minister to address the points I raised.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: They did their homework but the Ceann Comhairle did not allow them to read it out aloud.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: The Minister has said he will not contact the Association of Irish Local Government until after the regulations have been made. He also said he does not have a problem with this. That is the problem. The composition of the forum will depend on what the Minister of the day thinks about who he or she wants to be there. In this amendment, my party is attempting to set out specific categories...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: The issue with the Association of Irish Local Government is that substantial powers have been taken from it. I suggest in the specific context of this amendment that it comprised a democratic forum. The county and city councils used to make the water plans. They had to prioritise. Their members made a significant input into the annual water plans. That has now been removed. It is not...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: Without our amendments, the section is flawed and we will oppose it. Consider the past 18 months. Much has been said about the Dáil being the representative forum of the people of the Twenty-six Counties, but its Members have not been able to get answers. I stood opposite Phil Hogan when he sat where the Minister is and asked direct questions, but he waved his hand and brushed away my...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: This relates directly to section 7. If the Minister is not going to answer questions on Irish Water in the Chamber or via written reply and if the key stakeholders are not on the forum, which is being established merely to be a talking shop and to create a mirage, from where will we get answers? The Minister will move further down that track. I know where this is going - I saw it with...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: We had 31 forums for water services, namely, the local authorities. That is where water services plans were devised and people were made accountable by their peers in the electorate. The Minister met councillors in County Laois yesterday, and he saw local government in action there.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Brian Stanley: That is good. The Sinn Féin presence on the council makes all the difference.