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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: We are dealing with three amendments. The most substantial, amendment No. 20, has serious implications. The problem with the amendment is that the public knows at this stage what is happening and what has been happening to date. They have been following the succession of money transferred in one form or another, whether the €540 million from the National Pensions Reserve Fund, the...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: I have absolutely no problem paying that tax but the Government hands it out with one hand and-----

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: I wish the Government were using it for something more useful.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: I have a suggestion for the Minister of State.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: I have a straightforward suggestion for him, namely, that he take the €130 million, or a large part thereof, and give it in the form of a subvention to some of the rural group water schemes.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: The group water schemes that have been connected to the Uisce Éireann network will be waiting for the Minister of State when he goes canvassing in the rural areas. I hope he knows that.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: I am talking about the mains supply here. If the Government has €130 million floating about the place and is wondering what to do it with, it could use it as a subvention-----

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: -----for people who do need to improve their water supply, but not in the bogus way that is proposed, which is not improving anything. One can twist this whatever where one likes. The fact is that one does not have to do anything for the grant. Any Member of this House can claim the grant, which is ludicrous. The problem with the grant is that one does not have to do anything for it....

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: On a point of order, the Deputy is talking through his exhaust pipe. He is talking about something he knows nothing about. I ask him to withdraw those remarks.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: I ask Deputy O'Donovan to withdraw those remarks. He cannot speak for me.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy was not here yesterday and he has only just come into the Chamber.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: A lot of them are on public supplies as well but Deputy O' Donovan would not know that.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: They are on public supplies as well but the Deputy would not know that.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: And swanned in.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: Fine Gael and Labour drive it.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: Forty-three local authorities.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: It is not the water conservation grant.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: We are discussing amendments Nos. 2, 3 and 20.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: I want to come back on the amendment.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2015)

Brian Stanley: That is not happening.