Results 5,501-5,520 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: Senator à Domhnaill got caught.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: The Senator does not have to worry about the promises I made.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: What I say goes.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: Do not be oversensitive.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: The reason this provision is included in the Bill is that the provision of any additional information could include such issues as the type of system that is already there, when it was installed and whether it is serviced regularly. It will help the EPA and local authorities to come up with what they regard an appropriate national inspection plan. There is a catch-all statement in the Bill...
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: It will not be mandatory.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: No. The householder already has the information. On a point of clarification, we know the householder has this information because he or she lives there. When we get the information from the householder and give it to the local authorities, we are informing them of what type of inspection has to be carried out, taking into account what is already in situ.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: This will not either.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: I do not know.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: There is no additional cost to the householder.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: On amendment No. 7, to which the Senator referred, any other information required will be specified before the Bill is passed, which is what he wanted me to do. I was not prepared to do that.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: No.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: No.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: It might inform the fact we will not have to inspect them at all. It might help local authorities. They, with the guidance of the EPA, will pick the places to be inspected on a risk-based assessment, something they already know and are doing under the Water Services Act 2007. The basic information supplied in this case about the type of system to be registered may inform a local authority...
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: That is what we are doing.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: It will be used for the purpose of informing local authorities of how best to draw up the national inspection plan, no more and no less.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: I would not misuse legislation.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: We will not know what is out there until the inspections take place. That is the point.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: For whom will it involve costs? There is a standard registration fee of â¬50.
- Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)
Phil Hogan: What hoops?