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- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I did know about it.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 7: In page 5, to delete lines 22 to 24 and substitute the following: "(5) A certificate of registration shall be valid for the lifetime of the property or not less than 40 years from the date on which it was issued.". This debate has been acrimonious and people watching it on television are probably annoyed and are asking what we are doing here but if we got realistic...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am outlining the basis for my proposal on the registration, if Deputy Lawlor wants to listen. I want the certificate of registration to be valid for 40 years or for the lifetime of the household. What is the reason for the Minister's clandestine measure that the person must re-register every five years? We had the discussion about re-registering with the water services provider whoever...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: We know the realpolitik is that these agencies and quangos have the power, some rightly and others wrongly, and they will use it. I discussed that with a Member before he left the Chamber. The NGOs and An Taisce already are drafting their complaints to Brussels. They see the "codology" being peddled here by a senior Minister in the Government which will result in there not being any...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Why?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is it.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Is it possible to get a copy of that document?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister can say we are scaremongering, but we are not. At a meeting in my county on Thursday of last week, a gentleman came from Galbally, County Limerick. He was not a farmer but lived in a cottage. Early in 2011, before any of this Bill was discussed, he had a visit from a county council official informing him that there had been a complaint that his septic tank system, which he had...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I did not hear that.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Sorry.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: I am listening.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: We are all hear to listen.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: What about my man in Limerick?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: That is a good question. If we had proper clarity on these questions each time, we would be right. It is not that I was not listening but I did not hear the answer the Minister gave to Deputy Stanley. He referred to going back to 1965 and before that. I am discussing the man in Limerick whose name I have before me. Deputy Collins will check it out for me anyway. This man received a...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: One is in Waterford and one is in my area. I might get Deputy Coffey to give me a hand with it because we share that territory, provided the Minister does not take him into Kilkenny. This is an important part of the legislation. I will press the amendment because it matters if one gets a certificate. Deputy Wallace asked a pertinent point. What happens when this is all finished 20 years...
- Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Social Protection, further to Parliamentary Question No. 298 of 17 January 2012, if her attention has been drawn to an inaccuracy in her reply where she stated that community employment participants can continue to avail of education and training programmes that are available to them free of charge from existing State funded providers; if her attention...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2012)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is hiding behind the Attorney General.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: He is a bit to the left.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2012)
Mattie McGrath: Freagair an cheist.