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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: How would Mr. Moran feel if someone took over an enterprise with a turnover of roughly €12 million per annum and seven years later he or she still had not-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. The organisation is worth €5 million, it is taken over, but seven years later those who have taken it over still have not got their act together. How would Mr. Moran feel about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: The point I am making is that this is taking too long.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the ferry company in question provide free parking?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to speak. It appears from the proposal supplied that in the initial submission the witnesses allowed the rate proposed to remain as the rate to be used - I refer to the rate of €244. Notwithstanding this, the witnesses have referred to a figure of 8.2% in efficiencies. Can they reconcile all this? I would have thought that if cost reductions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it not correct that Irish Water charges are twice the UK average, 25% higher than the charges in Northern Ireland and 61% higher than those in Scotland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Given that 80% of water meters will have been installed by the end of 2016, was a model considered under which a capped assessed charge or maximum charge would continue to apply until that time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will Mr. McGowan repeat that, please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: If the CER were to go with the assessed charge up to 31 December 2016, would the financial model of capped charges that is to remain in place until 1 July cover the costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: But if people use less water in this nine-month period than the amount capped, will they get a rebate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did CER do a sensitivity analysis to run that model up to the end of 2016?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: With due respect, some people had their meters installed a long time ago and they are getting it. If their meter was installed six months ago, they will be able to avail of this model up to 1 July 2015.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: I accept that, but given that the CER knows the rate at which meters will be installed, did it consider extending the current model up to 31 December 2016?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have a very short question. Did CER consider allowing the current model to run for everyone for longer? Up to the end of 2015 or the end of 2016, people would have their charges capped based on the model that has been put in place. It is a very straightforward thing. People would have absolute certainty about what they pay up to the end of 2016. At that point, 80% of the meters would...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: No; let me be specific on this. What I am saying is that between now and the end of 2015 - or, ideally, the end of 2016 - people would know that the absolute maximum they could pay would be the cap that has been put in place, and if their meter reading was less, they would pay the smaller amount.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is in place up to 1 July.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: Correct. I want the CER to look at extending this to the end of 2015 or the end of 2016. It would take away all uncertainty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: There is a thing in there called a 60-day look-back rule. Does that mean people have up to 30 December to file their returns and get all the allowances rather than 31 October? I ask the CER to publish a sensitivity analysis on the question of extending the capped charge period from 1 July 2015 to the end of December 2015 or 2016. I am amazed that such an analysis has not already been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Kieran O'Donnell: At the end of November or December?