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

Jerry Buttimer: The system is working.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Acknowledge that the system is working.

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

Jerry Buttimer: There are a lot of independents on boards.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Does Deputy McGrath want to be on the forum?

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

Jerry Buttimer: One of the success stories of this Dáil has been the Constitutional Convention. That type of forum can work well. What we want to achieve is the creation of a forum which will allow people to highlight and address issues many of us highlighted and spoke about, including that highlighted by Deputy Healy. Some of the remarks about the staff of Irish Water have been downright...

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

Jerry Buttimer: I am.

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

Jerry Buttimer: It is important in the context of the forum-----

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

Jerry Buttimer: I am referring to that. The forum, as I understand it, will include the people who use water. We must also remember the board of Irish Water is in place and there is a corporate structure with a chief executive.

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

Jerry Buttimer: That is a different matter.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Some of you oppose everything.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Some in the House will oppose everything and the hypocrisy of some people, although not Deputy Broughan, beggars belief.

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

Jerry Buttimer: Yes, a Cheann Comhairle. The forum, as I understand it, will represent the interests of the customers, the people to whom Deputy Stanley refers in his amendment, including the householder and the commercial water user. Perhaps we need to see more dialogue and communication, which is what the forum is trying to do. I welcome that. Any of us who attended and spoke at the clinics-----

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

Jerry Buttimer: Any of us who spoke at or attended the clinics of Irish Water in Leinster House will recognise that this is an opportunity for us to engage with it. The important point here is that the forum will allow a channel of communication and will allow for the stakeholder, which is the citizen, to engage properly in discourse with Irish Water. Rather than oppose it, we should embrace it as a model...

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

Jerry Buttimer: Yes, that is the point. That is not what we are doing here.

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

Jerry Buttimer: What we are doing here is giving an opportunity to the citizen, the user, to engage or interface, which is the new modern term, with one another. Rather than oppose it, we should embrace what the forum is trying to do and see how it works. The reality is that if we do not, we will have missed an opportunity.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (16 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 361. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on legislating so that perpetrators of serious assaults would be liable for the financial consequences arising from any injuries caused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47853/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (16 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 362. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on legislating for mandatory prison terms for perpetrators of serious unprovoked assaults; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47854/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (16 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 397. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average waiting time for payments under the early childhood care and education scheme; the longest period that a service provider has been waiting for payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47717/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (16 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 398. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the increasing regulation and inspection regime applicable to providers of early childhood care and education services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47718/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (16 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: 401. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of the inspection regime for providers of early childhood care and education services; if he will outline any proposed changes to this inspection regime; the model upon which such changes have been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47721/14]