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Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Oh, please, Senator.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Probably the mess Fianna Fáil made is what has changed since 2010.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Not as much as Fianna Fáil knew, because you were in power.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you so much. I am entitled to be here.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: That Fianna Fáil never fixed.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: That your party never put into water.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: I remind Senator Ó Domhnaill that when Fianna Fáil wished to-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Senator.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank the Acting Chairman. I remind Senator Ó Domhnaill that when Fianna Fáil offered its version of water charges it had a flat rate charge of €175. It was described not as a tax but the cost of the service.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: Excuse me, Senator Norris. It was to be a flat rate charge until water metering was introduced, at which point the charges would alter. I merely wanted to remind Senator Ó Domhnaill that everything he included in his argument to oppose section 3 were matters which his party had in place at the time it made its proposal.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: I am rebutting the argument made by Senator Ó Domhnaill that the Labour Party changed its position. I wish to show him in a very fair and even-handed manner that in 2010 the Fianna Fáil position was exactly this, that there would be a charge-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----that it was not a tax and that it would wait for the metering which would come down the track. Now it seems, as if by magic, Fianna Fáil has changed its position entirely and now wishes for all of this to just disappear. I wanted to make this point.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did Professor Honohan interview or speak to former staff members who had left the Central Bank by the time he carried out his investigations?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Did he speak to anybody at the ECB or on the council of the ECB?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Why was that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: If he was to use a word to describe the relationship between the Department of Finance and the Central Bank over the years, would he say "close" was a reasonable one to use? I mean close in all its senses.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: How is it that in his own report there was little discussion or examination of the role of the Department of Finance?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I know about Wright. In the interests of the public and all of that, Professor Honohan is saying that was not part of his remit.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: It seems odd, given the close relationship that would have existed, that through the whole report I get the sense that it is just about where the building of the Central Bank ended. It does not feel like a joined up piece of thinking. That seemed odd to me when I read it.