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- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: Up to amendment No. 123.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: No, I have them here. They go up to amendment No. 123. I have the same sheet as the Acting Chairman.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: We can change the name but the real deal is what is in the Bill. I suggest that this Bill does not do what it should do and I will leave it at that.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (15 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: 145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the next payment of the beef genomics programme will issue to farmers. [29465/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: 2. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions position regarding water charges and a referendum to ensure that water services are not privatised. [29232/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: What is the Minister's position regarding the position taken by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU, recently at its conference regarding water charges and the need for a referendum to ensure that water charges are not privatised?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: The Minister's reply missed the point. The Minister will be aware that ICTU, the body representing organised labour in this State, took a very strong position in Ennis and called for the abolition of water charges. It also supported the position I put forward in a Bill earlier this year regarding having a referendum to prevent the privatisation of water services unless the people so...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: -----in terms of the universal social charge and a number of other charges, taxes, extra pension levies and everything else. What they are saying now is that this is an extra taxation. They really want water charges abolished. In the reply, do we get one minute or two minutes?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: Is it one minute or two minutes?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: From a political point of view, this must be embarrassing. I heard what the Minister said about being a member of one of the unions. The facts are that here we have organised labour coming out strongly on this matter. Very few decisions are unanimous. Ordinary workers are seeing that they have taken a huge hit and here is another hit. Regarding the battle of hearts and minds, there is a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: Irish Water has received a large subvention. How can the Minister give a guarantee that Irish Water cannot ever be privatised? All it needs is a change in legislation. Eircom, or Telecom, as it was then called, was fattened up by public subvention in the same way as Irish Water is now. That is the fear. We should have a referendum.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Charges Administration (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: I have seen them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: 5. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current position; when he expects a EUROSTAT report on Irish Water's finances to be completed; and if he is satisfied that Irish Water will pass the criteria given that projected income from domestic water charges will fall well short of the running costs of Irish Water until at least 2018. [29236/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: When does the Minister expect EUROSTAT's report and determination on the finances of Irish Water to be completed? Does the Minister believe it will pass given the projected income and particularly yesterday's figures?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: The Minister's reply does not tell me much. Several months ago he stated we would know in June, then I heard September mentioned and now we do not know. The big justification for establishing Uisce Éireann was that it would be off-balance sheet. Given that four out of ten people are paying domestic water charges, it shows there will be an awful lot on balance sheet. A total of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: Does the Minister seriously believe he will be able to comply with this? More importantly, does he seriously believe he will be able to keep the finances of Irish Water off-balance sheet?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: Here we are seven months into the billing period and we do not know when EUROSTAT will rule on it. We know what is coming in is one tenth of what were projected to be the costs this time last year, which was €300 million. If the Minister remembers, just before the Government pushed the Commission for Energy Regulation out of the way, it was stated €300 million was to be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: The figure is €810 million.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: On slave wages.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Jul 2015)
Brian Stanley: The Government is both subsidising and charging and it is still not fixing the leaks.