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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The realignment-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----of the upgrading of the Galway plant saves €100,000 a month.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is about time the Deputy began to look at the bigger picture, for example with regard to what we will have to do in the next 15 to 20 years. How will Dublin city be supplied with water?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Is it going to come down through Poulaphouca and Ballymore Eustace?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy think that if Dublin city expands by another 50,000 or 60,000 people-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----there will be enough water to deal with that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin's party allowed a situation in which nothing was done with this country's piping system for 50 years. Is the Deputy aware that there are pipes in this city that are caked inside and the bore is less than two inches when it should be much more than that? All of that has to be replaced. More than 1 million people are on a knife edge with an inadequate water supply. While the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the right thing to do in the interests of conservation. If we are to have an effective system, we need to be able to fix what is wrong and to invest for the future. That is what it is about. The Deputy strayed from the question of the Economic Management Council and its constitutionality-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----to the question of water and water meters.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I just thought the Deputy should know those things. The next time he is talking to a good plumber in Cork, he will be told that the value of having a meter is that it allows people to know what they are using and what they are losing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: That allows them to be fixed and investment to be made for the future.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: First of all, the Deputy made the point about the Economic Management Council and the work that it does. Then he branched into the pipeline for water. The Bill dealing with that will be debated later tonight. There is plenty of time over the next period to discuss that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Economic Management Council has a duty to consider some of the major implications in terms of infrastructure that we have to look at for the next number of years. For instance, what does one do in terms of financing broadband for the country outside the cities and bigger towns? How does one do that? Is it to be by private contractors? Is it to be by the ESB being able to form a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is not the case. I do not know whether the Deputy was ever in a trench himself having to deal with one of those things but, believe me, it is an experience. For instance, we discussed the question of homelessness. What does one do with an issue that has been around for a long time? The point was that, in addition to the Cabinet sub-committees, which I chair myself, the Minister,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is a contribution every year of a pretty significant amount. Let me give the Deputy an example of three very small rural schemes down the west of 1,200 houses, fragmented holdings, long boreens and all of that, bad sources and everything. They are paying serious money every year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: They bundled them all together with the local authority at the time and the then Department of the Environment, fenced off the sources, put in proper pumps, fixed the leaks, and put a meter on every farm for every trough and for every house. In the first year, those 1,200 houses saved 500 million litres of water. Those people are very happy in the knowledge that they know exactly what they...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I take the Deputy's point regarding conservation, and he is right about it. This matter has been a source of discussion at local authority meetings and Department meetings over the years. We have seen on the Continent, going back a number of years, a far sharper and more effective method of collecting rainwater for use in gardens, for car washing and all of that. I see water conservation...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and she has done so on a number of occasions in respect of important issues. In all honesty, it is not a case of four people entering a room, making a decision and then stating that the Cabinet will accept it. We discuss matters of economic planning or, in some instances, budgetary issues to see if it might be possible to adopt a particular approach in respect of them and then ask the...
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 15, Supplementary Estimates for Public Services [Votes 35 and 36], back from committee; No. 16, motion re membership of committee; No. 31, Water Services Bill 2014 - Committee and Remaining Stages, to adjourn after one hour if not previously concluded. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1) the Dáil shall sit later and business...
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The motion of confidence-----