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

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is no point in listening to the Minister.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I do not wish to labour the point but it has been well made. What is the reason for the "five years" unless the house is sold? The only logic for the "five years" if the house is not sold is, as Departments do, to put the long-term plan in for the fee. This is done.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister will find out in the same way as the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, is finding out because, as he said, he is out of practice. There is a long-term design here and, therefore, I ask the Minister to consider the issue and say that if one has registered, unless the house changes hands, there would not be a requirement for re-registering. I join Deputy...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I accept that. We are looking at it. Will the Minister give Members the reference for the EIA screening and for the site?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Perhaps we can get the references.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: References are required.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Why is there re-registration?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: That seems to be what I had referred to under a previous amendment, that it is planning to put an onerous registration system in place and that it will get more complicated incrementally, as we have seen in the past.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The fact is that it also relates to existing septic tanks. It is in the regulation.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am talking about what is actually written in the code. The code states that the COP also provides guidance to local authorities where an existing system is proposed to be upgraded. It does not only apply to new build. It is stated in the code in black and white.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Section 4(1)(h).

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: There would be different circumstances in the 2011 Bill.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are getting somewhere now.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has given an undertaking in respect of the regulations. I am satisfied on that issue now that we are going in a proper direction and proceeding in a systematic manner. I am content to wait and see what the EPA advises the Minister to publish. We will also be pressing at the committee that the EPA, An Taisce and such organisations should be invited in to advise the committee in...

Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is important this scheme follows rather than leads the market. There is a danger that the word will go out that the Department in subsidising 40% of the private rental market is subsidising landlords rather than tenants. I accept that unlike in times past a small number of landlords, who are owners of a second home rather than part of large operations, are in financial distress. That...

Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When Minister for Social Protection - the Minister may have found traces of this in the Department - I was working with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on standards in rented accommodation, PRTB pre-registration rather than post-registration, BER ratings, building regulations and so on. Has the Minister progressed discussions on those issues? The Department...

Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There will always be unscrupulous landlords. The Minister will be aware that it is illegal for a landlord to seek a top-up.

Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Has consideration been given to making the penalties for doing so much more stringent, thus strengthening the law in this regard? As for the interdepartmental committee, has the Minister discussed with her officials making a proposal to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to the effect that registration of properties to let should be carried out before letting...

Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was on my watch that the decision was made to move the CE schemes and the employment support schemes relating to FÁS within the Department's remit. That was a good decision and, as a result of it, the Minister has been dealt a very good hand of cards because she has responsibility for the CE schemes, the community services programme and various other schemes. In the context of training,...

Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2012)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What about my suggestion on wages?