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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I bought a car in 2011.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Motor tax has doubled since I bought the car. Other people have also experienced that. They now find out that this money is not going to roads or to upgrade signage, which we are always told it does go to and that it is ring-fenced. Rather, it is going to Irish Water. The labyrinthine funding mechanisms for Irish Water really must be explained so I would like to hear what the Minister of...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: We all pay for it.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It is nothing to do with the amendment.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Farmers.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Tesco.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: There are no queues in Greece.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: There are farmers in Mulhuddart, by the way.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: We are going to need local-----

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I cannot believe the Tánaiste has the nerve to guillotine the debate on the Bill at 9 p.m. tonight.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I am very sorry. I will speak later.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I am hoping that some of the very loud voices that shouted down Deputy McDonald will not do the same to me. It is bad enough that the Government has had eight months since last November to introduce this legislation, but it has also left it until just before the summer recess to shove it in. In addition, the debate will be guillotined at 9 o'clock tonight, with the effect that many...

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: She wants the message to go out to tenants that they could be evicted when in fact the Bill will follow tenants, not landlords. Landlords should not be interfering in it. This is the third time that really serious legislation on water charges has been introduced in an underhand way by the Government that is pushing it through.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste made sure that the debate on a motion on lone parents took place at 10.30 p.m. last night. Women are going to community welfare officers, thanks to those cuts.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: They are putting messages around on Facebook.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste attempts to say that only 20% of them are in poverty, while 63% are in poverty according to a survey.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Those are the issues the Tánaiste does not want to be brought out tonight.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I can assure the Tánaiste that the people will not forgive her for water charges or the cuts to the lone-parent family payment scheme.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a burning issue.

Order of Business (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste does not care.