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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Child and Family Agency Funding (16 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is clear from what the Minister has stated that funding from the agencies is not the reason the company has closed down. There is a concern about the continuity of services particular to the local community. To ensure continuity, will the Minister ask Tusla to engage with the local community to determine whether the latter can put in place an alternative structure into which the projects...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: State Aid to Fishery and Aquaculture Sector: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (16 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Most of the points I intended to raise have been already touched on by colleagues. Regarding the pots replacement scheme, could that scheme have gone further under the previous rules? Did the Government have scope, for example, to cover loss of earnings, damage to vessels and so on? Or is that what is envisaged under the new guidelines such that, if we had a similar occurrence this winter,...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá mé as seasamh inniu le aird a tharraingt ar cheann de na faillí atá á dhéanamh ag an Rialtas seo maidir le cearta agus ó thaobh na reifrinn atá geallta. There was extensive debate at the Constitutional Convention around a number of referenda that could have been brought forward. One of the recommendations is to extend the voting right in...

Seanad: Tributes to Member of Staff (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Ba mhaith liom, thar ceann ionadaí Shinn Féin, gach dea-ghuí a ghuí ar Andy. We actually have a serious issue that we might need the Leader to clarify because, to me, Andy looks far too youthful to be retiring at this stage. As a newer Member of the House, I must say it has been always a breath of fresh air to come in and meet Andy, who has always shared a smile and a...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Is it a transferable script about Sinn Féin?

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Surprise, surprise. We have heard this one before.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: No, we are not. The Senator is wrong again.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Senator is not consistent in his ideology.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We will see what the electorate has to say.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Senator had not read our pre-budget submission properly. He should do his homework.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Tá mé ag éisteacht go cúramach le gach rud a bhfuil le rá aige. Ba mhaith liom a rá go bhfuil mé glan i gcoinne an Bhille seo. Ní chuirfidh sé sin aon iontas ar an Aire. We have heard a lot of debate over and back but the basic principle around what is happing here and what people were marching against on 10...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The cost now, I believe, will be €539 million. The talk of Irish Water being good at managing costs is blown out the window there. The €100 million above the estimate in that scenario cancels out the Poolbeg saving to which the Minister alluded earlier as well. I tend to agree with Senator van Turnhout on many issues but I disagree with one of the issues she raised today...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Let the Senators not do a Pontius Pilate job on it now in blaming Big Phil. As a result, the former Minister got a lovely promotion.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: He went off to find himself a green jersey, as far as I know, somewhere in Brussels.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I agree with Senator Eamonn Coghlan on water being a valuable resource.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Senator Coghlan is correct that it should be kept in the ownership of the Irish people, but I do not buy in to this agenda that Irish Water is only there for conservation measures and to save money and to put in place better infrastructure, and I can give a practical example, that of the cost of the regional water scheme in Connemara. Previous to this, Galway County Council, after a 40 year...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Minister is putting the infrastructure in place at the behest of his EU masters.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is exactly what is being lined up here so that those regional water schemes or their operation can be privatised in the future. My party and I will certainly oppose that. Tá go leor eile le rá faoi na costaisí a bhainean le grúpscéimeanna uisce agus mar sin de. Beimid ag tarraingt anuas na ceisteanna seo ar fad ar Chéim an Choiste. I believe that the...