Results 9,561-9,580 of 16,478 for speaker:Tommy Broughan
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: What about the responsibility of the Minister for Health, who is sitting beside the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform right now?
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: The buck stops with the Minister for Health.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: That is his responsibility.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: When will the licensing of health care facilities Bill be brought forward? Given the significant failure of HIQA in the Áras Attracta issue, all of us in the House welcome the extension of HIQA's powers to invigilate centres for citizens with intellectual disability. Will the Minister for Health be asked by the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to bring an urgent report...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: I wish to make a final appeal to the Minister, Deputy Kelly, to withdraw the Bill, to abolish Irish Water and to get rid of water charges and taxes. The Minister comes from a real Labour movement background. After yesterday's protest and in view of the huge turnouts at the previous protests, he cannot be unaware of the intense anger and deep concern among people. In large part, the protest...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: It was accepted but the Minister is still not proceeding in such as way as to have an immediate referendum to prevent privatisation once and for all. In light of what we saw in regard to waste management, it is inevitable that the Government will leave the door open to privatisation. It must be stated much of the work of Irish Water is already privatised. Since Irish Water was...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: Instead of Alice in Wonderland it is Alan in Wonderland.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: They are not paying our property tax.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: I think the House is completely confused. In over 20 years in the House I cannot remember a time when the ministerial team was not able to present basic figures on Committee Stage that actually added up. I note the sweeper of the team has come to the House to do a bit of sweeping in defence-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: -----but with these incredible figures, it still looks to me, as I said earlier, like Alan in Wonderland.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: It is Alice in Wonderland.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: The figures do not add up. Deputy Donnelly and Deputy Shortall have made a consistent case tonight. It looks as though it will cost the State money to collect the water charge. I ask the Minister, Deputy Howlin, to tell me the difference between the cost of delivering 1,000 cubic litres of water through the 31 local authorities and the equivalent cost to Irish Water. The Minister, Deputy...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: I support Deputy Peter Mathews and the other Deputies in the request to adjourn.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: I think we should adjourn because a very important proposal has been brought to our attention. I think Deputy Donnelly's original questions have not been addressed. We are talking about charges on the Exchequer and charges on the taxpayer. Thanks to modern technology, everybody in the Chamber has checked the CSO website, as has Deputy Brian Stanley who first raised the number of...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: Hear, hear.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: The shambles we have witnessed for the last few hours from the Minister, Deputy Kelly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, is reminiscent of what happened four or five years ago when two senior Ministers, Dermot Ahern and Noel Dempsey, did not have a clue that the blanket bank guarantee had bankrupted our country. It is a very similar situation.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: As the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will recall particularly well, the then Ministers knew nothing about a key element of the figures they were supposed to be supervising in government. Regardless of how we consider the conservation grant numbers in this section of the Bill, it seems that the €271 million is evaporating before our eyes like the 40% of water that is being wasted from the...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: They will be waiting for the Government in the long grass behind the garden wall. People will raise the night we found out the Government did not know what the figures were or what the income was.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: This goes back to a broader question about Irish Water. When the Minister came in here to make his famous "legacy" speech about what would happen, he did not give us the numbers. We had to go back to our offices and go on Twitter to get some figures. We got some basic figures about the whole parameters of Irish Water an hour or two hours later. We still do not know how it is going to...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: Except for ourselves and Azerbaijan. We had a good reason for them.