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Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I move amendment No. 16: In page 5, line 32, after "registration" to insert "at no additional cost to the householder". This amendment relates to registration. We seek to insert into the Bill a provision that any reregistration would not incur an additional cost to a householder. The initial registration fee was €50. We opposed that but in terms of re-registration the Minister has...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Will the Minister accept the amendment?

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: On a point of clarification, I thought I heard the Minister indicate when he spoke initially that he would accept it as the Schedule to the final Bill.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Obviously, I was mistaken but to accept this as a regulation that will be signed some time in the future after the Bill is passed by the Oireachtas with the Oireachtas having no powers in regard to that regulation-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I know that.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: We may have time but we have no say.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Yes.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I move amendment No. 9: In page 5, to delete lines 9 to 11 and substitute the following: "(e) in the case of an application under subsection (2), there will be no fee required.". Tá an amendment seo agus amendment Shinn Féin beagnach mar an gcéanna agus tá an bheirt againn aontaithe ar an leasú seo. Táimid ag tarraingt aird ar an táille atá nochtaithe sa Bhille seo, an "prescribed...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Nice try by Senator Michael D'Arcy.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Is mór an trua é nach bhfuil Gaeilge ag an Seanadóir.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: It is an awful pity one cannot speak in one's native language in the House without being accused of misleading the House.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: There was a point made by a Senator opposite.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: It was a strange remark.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Yes, I can.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I did. There was an accusation made that I was talking crap. I would like it withdrawn.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I am speaking the language into which I was born — the Irish language. I went to national school without a word of English. I find it ridiculous to the extreme that I am accused by Members opposite of misleading the House and trying to speak twice.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: I find it highly insulting-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: -----but it is not surprising. Fine Gael in government is doing everything to betray the principles to the Irish language in any event.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Yes I can.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Brian Ó Domhnaill: Yes I can but I find it highly insulting-----