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Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: It is very useful-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: It is very useful if Deputy Cowen could be wound up and continue to give the game away.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: The reality is that they are playing a dirty game with Fine Gael to keep water charges going.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Let me speak about some of the other members of the commission. We wondered why in the Bill it is referred to as a committee rather than a commission, but we presumed it was a reference to the expert commission. The fact it is not given any democratic legitimacy whatsoever-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: We did.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: The key question people will be asking, which is the point of our amendment, is why there is not a reference to the Dáil and why the Dáil does not get a vote on the members of the committee and why we have a committee set up.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: I am speaking to the amendment.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Let us look at some of the members of the commission.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: You only lost by one vote.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: We have Dr. Xavier Leflaive from the OECD, an agency that has consistently pushed an agenda of user fees. He has written that water pricing can be used to signal scarcity and to create incentives for efficient water use in all sectors, and that social consequences are best addressed through well-designed tariffs and other targeted measures.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: This is the Dáil. It is a platform.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: We are talking about the amendments here.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Yes.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Thank you.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: That is what I am speaking about. That is no problem.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: There is lots of time to debate this tonight.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: I am not going around the country.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Another is Peter Peacock, who favours charges and boasts that consumer forums can help lower prices.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Paul Murphy: Another is Ms Sarah Hendry, who is an academic lawyer who teaches a module on how price setting can achieve social and economic objectives. Another is Gritta Nottelman, a strategy consultant with Waternet, a Dutch water company that charges for tap water and the discharge of wastewater. Another is Bill Emery, a former director of Ofwat, the British regulatory authority that presided over a...