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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Is the Minister better than the census of the population?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: This is absolutely ridiculous.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is nonsense. He is in a fog.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: There were sending them, presumably, to fixed structures.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We are told 1.3 million are principal private residences. At €100 each, that makes up-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The unofficial member of the Cabinet is coming in again. He is confusing things. Please let us-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Let us be serious.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We have accounted for 1.3 million principal residences, which is the €130 million the Minister has stated tonight.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is clear. Will the Minister give us a breakdown of the missing 700,000 homes? Some of them are holiday homes that are not rented out so they are not entitled to €100, but there must be hundreds of thousands of houses in the 700,000 which are rented, which means the tenants are entitled to €100. Therefore, for every 100,000 houses it is an extra €10 million. How...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I thought it was customary for new appointments to the Cabinet to be announced in the Dáil before they appear here from the backbenches.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Let us clarify these figures. That would be €200 million.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: How many second homes - non-principal private residences - are excluded from this? The number of second homes does not come to 700,000, which is what the Minister would need to bring the figure down to 1.3 million. I ask the Minister to clarify. Will tenants - local authority tenants and tenants of private landlords - get the €100 conservation grant as well?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Where did the figure of 700,000 houses go to?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Seacht gceád míle tig.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We are nearly there.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is very simple to clarify it. At the moment we are searching for 700,000 houses.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We have accounted for 1.3 million-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will address the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. At a briefing, Irish Water, in the form of the chief executive, told us they had sent out 2.8 million packs, presumably to 2.8 million homes. They were not sending them to tents pitched on the Blasket Islands.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does that mean the tenants will not get it back?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I see the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has come to assist so all will probably be well now.