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Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: I will tell the Deputy. There has been a European Court of Justice judgment against Ireland that will cost €26,000 per day and €20 million in fines-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: ----- unless Ireland complies by implementing regulations to improve public health and to deal with the environmental issues that have been raised in this court case. The Deputy is against that.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy is against the legislation. He is against public health-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Yes.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy has voted against every measure brought in under this Bill.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Deputy Flanagan voted against the Bill on Second Stage. He has voted against the principle of the Bill.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: As people will not be criminalised, this kind of hollow talk about being pro-environment in Roscommon while doing something different in the House-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: ----- is absolute nonsense. The Deputy is a hypocrite when it comes to that.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Yes. I will conclude on that point.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: When the Deputy was mayor of Roscommon County Council, he could have sorted out the local authority.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Deputy Mattie McGrath supported and voted with the Green Party all of the time.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy's party has no say in respect of it.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Absolutely.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The costs in question are higher in the North.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: Deputy Stanley might be a Minister in the future.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: This has nothing to do with the amendments.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: What the Deputy is saying has nothing to do with the amendments.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: When did they do that?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The 2009 EPA regulations, which I support, are for new build. They will not be required to deal with this problem, even though Fianna Fáil and Deputies Mattie McGrath and Michael Healy-Rae want to implement them. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív regularly says there was no investment in rural Ireland to deal with water and wastewater matters. That might have been the case but not anymore. The...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy has now advocated the abandonment of the equalisation principle under the local government fund. He knows that when motor tax is paid into the fund, there is an equalisation measure to transfer resources from urban Ireland to rural Ireland to deliver local government services. Has he forgetten about this? There has been a massive transfer of resources from urban Ireland to rural...