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Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The Minister should read our amendments. He is misleading the House.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: We are upset about the Minister misleading the House.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Check the record.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Senator Gilroy is wrong.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I was so energised after the debate last night when we finished here that I was able to go for a run this morning at 6 o'clock. I hoped we would go right through the night but, obviously, that did not happen.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I had to correct a lie and issue the truth.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: We will say no more. I think Senator Gilroy knows what I mean.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: It is important that the truth be told. The person who I challenged to a debate would not even come forward and have that debate publicly.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: That vindicates my position.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The person was hiding all day. I did not see him all day. He was hiding and not answering the telephone to the radio stations.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: On amendments Nos. 22 and 23, I would agree with Senator O'Donovan on what he has raised here. The legal implications are wide ranging and they have all sorts of connotations from a conveyancing point of view. They also have all sorts of connotations, for example, in a situation where a septic tank is built on a neighbour's land. Who is liable for a septic tank if it is build on a third...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: It is important before legislation would come in that these matters would be teased out in the Oireachtas. What are the legal ramifications and the cost ramifications, first, to the Department, and by extension to the taxpayer, if there was a case brought against it because the legislation was brought in, and second, to the individuals concerned? With some of these individuals, for example,...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: The owner of the property is not defined under section 70B.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I am only trying to tease it out. The owner of the property is not defined in the legislation. We are all aware that a considerable number of people are in negative equity with massive mortgages.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: It is an important point.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: It is an important legal point.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: This point relates to a technicality on the amendment because it deals with prosecutions.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: If an owner is to be prosecuted, who is the owner of the property in circumstances where, for example, the bank may have a loaned mortgage worth €400,000 on a property worth €200,000? The bank may also be taking proceedings against the individual concerned for non-payment of debts.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: In case the Labour Party and Fine Gael Senators do not realise, people are dealing with these problems every day.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Why are we bringing in daft legislation to penalise people when we know they are facing these problems? The Government is driving people out of the country and out of their own homes.