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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Is he saying that?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I keep asking the same question.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is wrong.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The census-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Is the Minister better than the census of the population?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: This is absolutely ridiculous.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is nonsense. He is in a fog.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Go away and-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: There is a gulag somewhere.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: If the Minister had come up front immediately and said that in fact his departmental advisers or number crunchers had figured out that there are 1,650,000 households in the State which are entitled to the €100 grant, if he had said that is €1,300,000 and then told us his Department estimates that 350,000 households will refuse to pay and therefore will not be entitled to the...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Regrettably, this has descended into farce because of the Government's-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----inability to answer simple questions or its refusal to answer questions because it wants to cover up a number of issues. The questions that Deputy Pearse Doherty just asked are what we have been asking for at least two hours and as clearly as he put them. The three musketeers on the Government's Front Bench, or maybe the three stooges would be more appropriate, considering the type of...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----are incapable of either giving us the answer or do not want to give it because they want to cover up-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Hang on.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Which word?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Okay.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, and his two ministerial colleagues are not stooges.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: They are just acting like that. Deputy Healy made a proposal and I, according to the Standing Order and in the proper way, want to make that proposal formally. Standing Order 23(2) states: "A motion that a sitting be suspended for a period may at any time be made, by permission of the Ceann Comhairle, and without notice. Such motion shall fix the period of suspension." I propose that the...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I do not think tomorrow is time enough for the Deputies.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Since we have made absolutely no progress over two hours, it will take a little bit more than overnight. I propose that the Dáil adjourn until 2 p.m. on Tuesday-----