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- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: We were here until 3 a.m. last night.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: That is not a bad thing either.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Where was the Deputy?
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: If the Deputy keeps going that way, he will be a Minister.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: It is facilitating spinning.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: That was the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Does he remember the backhand he got from the Minister for Finance?
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, got a cup of the best from-----
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The Government told us so many times that we believed it.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The Minister for Finance will have to quieten the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, again.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Obviously, he is not.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: The Acting Chairman stopped the leak. Deputy Lawlor was gushing.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: That is my wish, with the permission of the House. I thank the Acting Chairman. I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. It is widely accepted that across the political divide there is a recognition that clean water is a scarce resource, it is an expensive resource to produce, and it is right that there is an appropriate legislative framework in which the water...
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I will give the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, an opportunity.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I accept that.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I understand what is in the memorandum of understanding-----
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: -----on charging for water and the importance the Government attaches to that in terms of control of usage, conservation measures and resources that need not come from the central Exchequer that will provide the Government with the capital investment to upgrade the pipe network and all that goes with it. There is no issue in that regard. The Government, however, sees its only role here as...
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I accept that, but the Minister of State is asking for our support or otherwise for the process. The big question for the domestic consumer today is how much it will cost.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: In another era it would not have been such an issue. As many people did with building in better times, they laid the foundation and never knew how much it would cost by the time the roof was on. It is the other way now with the additional charges and with the change in economic circumstances, and people are hard pressed. While we are talking about the introduction of water charges, people...
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: I do not doubt the Minister of State's integrity in that regard, but it would have been helpful to have provided that information so that people would have an estimate of the cost and whatever free allocation they might get. There are thousands of apartments in Dublin city and I understand it will not be possible to meter those units individually, which gives rise to an equality issue....
- Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2013)
Timmy Dooley: Do not go there.