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Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy can see them in many places around the country.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: The saving in consumption and cost would be serious.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: This will lead to the creation of a whole new level of confidence and competence in the Irish water system, not just for now but for the next 50 years.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: I am not sure if the Deputy checked with her counterparts in Northern Ireland but the party seems to have a very different philosophy in this part of the island. The position is that there will be no upfront charge and when this system is worked out by the regulator, the cost of the system will be subsumed into the standing charge to be determined by the regulator. The people living in the...

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: -----and a standing charge is determined by the regulator, as it has been for very many years. With regard to the comment about people being cut off, these are all matters for discussion with regard to how the system will work. If a person does not pay an electricity or phone bill, the service is cut off. Water is fundamental for life and if the Government states that everybody will...

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: Clearly the system here is for everybody to understand that we cannot go on the way we have been going on, we cannot continue to have 40% of water leaking through systems, we cannot have 30-----

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: We will fix the pipes.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: Joe the plumber lost his place and has moved further to the right.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: For the Deputy's information, he can take it as a given that in the general discussions that take place about this matter, the priority of Government is to see, reflect and understand the difficulties that many people have. However, as I have explained to him on many occasions in the past, troika or no troika, we in this country have to sort out our public finance problems ourselves. Nobody...

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: On the cost of the installation of water meters, I have seen in today's newspapers reflections of various costs of meters, from €30 to €200 to €300, and the cost of installation in various locations around the country. That is all a matter for discussion and determination by Bord Gáis when it sets up Irish Water together with the regulator. As I stated, the Government will determine...

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: Let me repeat what I said for Deputy McDonald, as I did for Deputy Martin. What the Government decided yesterday was that Irish Water would be set up as a publicly owned utility.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: I understand Deputy McDonald's leader is at the socraid of Micheál Doherty and I extend our sympathies to Deputy Pearse Doherty on the loss of his father. I remind her of the comment made by her leader yesterday that this was about the privatisation of water. It is nothing of the kind. In fact, the legislation will strengthen the position that this is a publicly owned utility. That is why...

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: There will be no bills of any kind for water for two years.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: As I said to Deputy Martin, the ESB has been a public utility for many years yet we cannot determine the cost of electricity in three years time or five years time because we do not know what the geopolitical effects of events abroad might be.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: If I said to the Deputy that the Cabinet decided yesterday to go ahead with Metro North, she would ask me the cost of the tickets. The detail of these major schemes has to be worked out.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: I want to put people's anxieties at ease here. Bord Gáis Éireann will set up Irish Water as a publicly owned utility. There will be 2,000 jobs for young men and women to install water meters. There will be much more conservative and careful use of a scarce product.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: We will respect the importance of consumer protection, which is a point I made last year to all of the regulators. The Deputy need not run off now out of the Chamber and make wild statements.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: Welcome back, Joe the Plumber.

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Deputy for accepting the principle of what is involved here. What is involved is transforming the way in which water, as a valuable, precious entity, has been dealt with in this country. Over the next 25 to 50 years it will become even more important and it is critical that the Government now sets in place a system and platform by which water can be delivered to homes and...

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)

Enda Kenny: As the Deputy will be aware, that decision was made by a previous Government but what we have done here is to supplement the moneys from the NPRF through the PCAR system where we have borrowed to put a foundation in place for banks. The roll-out of this system under Irish Water will provide a unified, unitary, single transmission system of high quality where the exceptional losses through...