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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I actually said I was thinking more of Charlie Chaplin. To be honest, there is a good bit of Groucho and the Three Stooges in there too. It would be funny if it were not so serious. Last week we spoke about the hidden costs of Irish Water. Here is another cost. Judging from the anecdotal evidence we have already heard from Deputies, we will have a hell of a lot of disputes with Irish...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am discussing actual rats in pipes. A man who came to my office this week had rats coming into his house because of cracks in his water pipes. This is a serious problem and happens quite a lot when rats get into cracked sewer pipes. Many of these sewer pipes go across some of the demarcation lines I spoke about. In this man’s case, the sewer pipe is coming from a council property...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that we are going to have more disputes like this because we have Irish Water.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is obvious. To add to Deputy Coppinger’s examples, we have had two major leaks in Dún Laoghaire, one of which, on the West Pier, went on for weeks, with tens of millions of gallons of water pouring out of the pipe while the council and Irish Water argued over which of them was responsible. It went backward and forward and backward and forward, and the water just kept pumping...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (16 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the reopening of public service recruitment; if he will provide a breakdown of planned recruitment at all levels; if he will provide a break-down of grades across the civil and public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47833/14]
- Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He said "some".
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to the outrageous decision of the ECB not to answer questions at the banking inquiry. The inquiry is a political stunt that was likely to produce nothing from the outset but now it is a complete dead letter with one of the key players in the entire debacle that has bankrupted the country and driven Europe into crisis refusing to answer questions about its role and the pathetic...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that a prediction?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Good idea.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The argument being brought forward by the Government side does not stack up. What it has not stated is if, as Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly has articulated very well, it wants to prevent a future privatisation of Irish Water, it will hold a referendum. There is nothing to lose. It would copperfasten it and keep everybody happy and we would all be singing from the same hymn sheet, at least on...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is most likely that Fine Gael wants it, but the Government wants a get-out clause and there is a good reason. I come at the issue from a slightly different point of view from many of the other contributors in that I do not believe a majority in the Government parties want to prevent the privatisation of Irish Water; worse than that, I believe the Government knows that, with the...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am making the point that the Government states the amendment offers us a guarantee against privatisation, but it does not. In fact, everything else about Irish Water guarantees that it will start to be privatised from the moment charges are made in April 2015 or whatever date is proposed by the Minister. As soon as Irish Water starts to borrow money on the financial markets to undertake...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Access to RTE is not a human right.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a pity we did not have referendums on those decisions.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Divide and rule.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The customers paid for it.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On corporations.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Future governments can do so.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Public ownership of natural resources.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why did privatisation happen first in the countryside, where there was no campaign?