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- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputies for their various views and contributions. I disagree with a number of them. I am surprised that, with the exception of Deputy Ó Cuív, who like me has concern for rural Ireland, no Deputy expressed concern for more than 550,000 rural dwellers who already pay for water through their group water schemes, private wells or septic tanks in which they have had to...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: They have had to install, maintain and treat them over many years. Neither the parties of the left nor Sinn Féin has expressed concern for any of these people.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: Sinn Féin gave the view that it opposed the conservation grant that will assist these rural dwellers. The Sinn Féin Members were, as always, speaking out of both sides of their mouths, telling people what they want to hear on one side and on the other side coming here and making different statements.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: It was the same with the metering. Deputy Brian Stanley criticised the metering programme. In the North of Ireland, more than 30,000 meters have been installed, and they are continuously being installed, in preparation for water charges, which Sinn Féin chooses to deny, speaking out of the other sides of their mouths here in the South.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: It is a fact. I find it hard to listen to the hypocrisy I hear in the Chamber. Borrowing for metering will be repaid, just as when local authorities borrow. Where meters have been installed, we have found large volumes of water leakage. It is very obvious for people to see and when Irish Water publishes its annual reports, with the oversight of ComReg, we will see the very real benefits...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I like listening to the Deputy as much as he likes listening to himself.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy is very sensitive.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: No, it is not.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy would be surprised.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: We have been discussing it all night.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: So do I, but we cannot get out because of the Deputy's people.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputies would only be causing disruption.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I never mentioned Greece.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I never mentioned Greece once.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I never mentioned Greece. The Deputy should correct the record.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Unfinished Housing Developments (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: Budget 2014 contained a special provision, in the form of a targeted €10m Special Resolution Fund (SRF), to assist further in addressing the legacy of unfinished housing developments. The SRF is designed to encourage the resolution of the remaining tranche of unfinished developments identified in the National Housing Development Survey 2013 and, particularly, those developments not...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: It is apt that Deputy Paul Murphy is in the Chamber because yesterday he made some points about the possibility of Irish Water being privatised. I will clarify the position for his benefit and that of the House. The Government has consistently stated the supply of water and wastewater will remain in public ownership. This principle was enshrined in the Water Services Act, 2007 and...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy is opposed to it.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy forgot about the rural dwellers.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy forgot about the rural dwellers.