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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: The Minister, Deputy Howlin, will remember that he opposed water charges with me.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: He stood shoulder to shoulder beside me.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: We stood together and we defeated and destroyed Bertie Ahern's whole system of water charges in the mid-1990s. We stopped it. To be fair, Mr. Ahern later went to Europe and said "this is something the Irish do differently because we live in a rain-sodden country where water is freely available".

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: We decided to meet the cost of supplying water from general taxation.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: We are left in a situation in which we do not know the global numbers for this Irish Water quango because the Minister, Deputy Kelly, did not give them to us the day he came in here to make his famous speech.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: We have come back in here tonight to find that everything is a total shambles. I advise the Minister, Deputy Kelly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, to adjourn this debate for a couple of days in order that they can go back to their Department to do their homework. When they come back in here, they should try to give us some numbers we can actually discuss.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: These numbers do not add up.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: It is not fair to the House, to the Opposition or to the people. We do not know where we are. It looks like after all this schemozzle and turmoil, it is going to cost us money to collect these taxes.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Labour did not.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: There was. I had no-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: No, we are not.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: It is a lot of homework.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a report on the current status of negotiations regarding the codling wind park and plans to connect directly to the energy grid of the United Kingdom. [47117/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new additional Garda public order vans and unmarked Garda cars which were purchased in 2013 and to date in 2014 in the Garda R and J districts. [47582/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to have Raheny Garda station, Dublin 5 refurbished. [47583/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances and rapid response vehicles allocated to the Dublin region; and the number of such vehicles available after hours. [47564/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to legal proceedings (details supplied) regarding alleged infringements of planning laws concerning a public right of way in north County Dublin; if his Department is monitoring the situation with regard to other alleged infringements of planning laws, particularly of a SAAO which relates...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Telecommunications Infrastructure (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a list, following the completion of the post-primary broadband network, of the broadband connectivity assets and network which are now owned by the State. [47584/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (11 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources following the launch of the proposed high speed broadband network to all premises here, the total cost of this programme for each year up to 2020; and the resulting network and broadband assets which will be owned by the Irish State as a result of this programme. [47585/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I also strongly support the amendment. I heard what the Ceann Comhairle had to say about the debate which took place last night. I am of the view that it was very much directly related to the actual content-----