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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to add one piece to Deputy Donnelly’s maths. If we take in all the figures the Minister is talking about and add a possible €36 million gap between the Minister’s estimate of the number of households that will get the grant and the number the Central Statistics Office, CSO, says exist, it comes to €42 million but the Minister has not given us a figure for...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not given us the figure.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not given us the figure for the cost of administering the grant.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly, the Minister does not have it.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course the Minister disaggregates the cost of administrating.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a very serious admission for the Minister to make that he does not disaggregate the cost of the Department’s-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister’s maths will be very seriously out.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department of Social Protection is already overrun-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----where people wait months and months to get responses to appeals and the Minister is going to load all this extra work on them and he has not figured out how he is going to pay for it. He does not know the extra cost of the staff, the administration and has not added it into this. That is ridiculous.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is digging a big hole for himself. He would be better off-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The journalists will be looking and there will be an independent scrutiny of this debate and of the figures the Minister has put out. The questions we are asking will be writ large over the next few days and if it is discovered that the Minister’s maths were way out and he rammed the Bill through, despite the fact that those legitimate questions about the maths were being raised, he...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That could be €36 million.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this relevant?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Seconded.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In some ways, it is difficult to know what to say about the sham that we are witnessing regarding Irish Water. If Irish Water manages to bed down, which I doubt, then this amendment would alleviate the damage that Irish Water will do to the provision of water services. The fact that it will do damage is already very evident in just about every Member's constituency, given the joke that is...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am referring to the membership of the forum. Could it have a seat for Charlie Chaplin in absentia?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed. I said "in absentia".
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The forum and the fiasco certainly honour his memory. He would be proud of this Government for its sense of humour.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Irish Water will not work and will probably not last, but even what the Government has proposed in this section will not work. Many problems happen at local level. This is the folly of removing functions from local authorities. Although national co-ordination is a good idea, we do not need a super-quango to ensure it. We just need co-ordination between local authorities and a small body...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. In a few years' time it will be outsourced to some other part of the world. This is laughable. Sinn Féin's amendment is at least an attempt to alleviate the damage and stupidity involved in this folly. There seem to be holes everywhere in the Minister's numbers, with even more in this section. Will there be 12 or 60 members? We do not know. How will they be appointed?...