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- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: The Minister of State has had nothing to say.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: We will see in the next election.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: It is the only way. We will see then.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: There will be a seat kept safe here for the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Senator Ó Clochartaigh and I contributed earlier and raised a number of genuine concerns about water charges, expressing our opposition and detailing why we opposed them. We indicated how they were unfair and I spoke about progressive taxation versus indirect taxes. There were a number of specific questions and we raised genuine concerns but none of these was addressed in the response....
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: The Sinn Féin website.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: That document has been mentioned five times today but I have not seen it at all. Does the Senator have it?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Where is it?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: This famous document was mentioned five times but I have not seen it at all.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: That is political point-scoring and has nothing to do with the section at all.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: I welcome Senator Whelan to the debate.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: That is irrelevant.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: The Government then capped the charge. We spent a long time on our feet debating this with the previous Ministers, Deputies Hogan and O'Dowd, and they told us then that the central issue was water conservation because we were wasting too much water. They said what we needed was a system where we had water meters and people would pay for usage. They said there would only be one year of a...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: That is exactly the point. We had a derogation from the EU Water Framework Directive, but of course this Government is setting that aside completely and going ahead with its plan to charge.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)
David Cullinane: The point is that the thrust of European policy, what they want, is polluter pays, full cost recovery. In time, that is where this is going to go and people know that. That is why people are not going to be fooled or bribed into the principle of it. Once they buy into it and start paying it will go up and up. Once that does happen, and this goes right to the heart of the Sinn Féin...