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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Where did the figure of 700,000 houses go to?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Seacht gceád míle tig.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We are nearly there.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is very simple to clarify it. At the moment we are searching for 700,000 houses.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We have accounted for 1.3 million-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will address the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. At a briefing, Irish Water, in the form of the chief executive, told us they had sent out 2.8 million packs, presumably to 2.8 million homes. They were not sending them to tents pitched on the Blasket Islands.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: There were sending them, presumably, to fixed structures.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We are told 1.3 million are principal private residences. At €100 each, that makes up-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The unofficial member of the Cabinet is coming in again. He is confusing things. Please let us-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Let us be serious.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We have accounted for 1.3 million principal residences, which is the €130 million the Minister has stated tonight.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is clear. Will the Minister give us a breakdown of the missing 700,000 homes? Some of them are holiday homes that are not rented out so they are not entitled to €100, but there must be hundreds of thousands of houses in the 700,000 which are rented, which means the tenants are entitled to €100. Therefore, for every 100,000 houses it is an extra €10 million. How...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I can clarify the issue now and he can deal with it. I am confident he can. According to the 2011 census, in this-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: In 2011 there were 1,649,408 permanent private households. It has not altered that much since then. At €100 per household, that would be €164 million. I ask the Minister to clarify, please.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Right, we know that.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is 1.64 million.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: What happens-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We are going round in circles.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: There are 700,000 houses.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Is the Minister saying there are 700,000 holiday houses in the country?