Results 2,601-2,620 of 2,771 for speaker:Colm Brophy
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: A number of the questions which I had have already effectively been dealt with so I will not go into them. I will focus particularly on one thing, namely, the funding of water. I presume it is the documentation, but can Ms Graham give me the figure? If the State becomes the sole customer of Irish Water, what will the State's bill for becoming the sole customer be? That to me is the key...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: What is that figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: If we take Ms Graham's tabulation, she is saying to take out a couple of hundred million euro. What is the figure if the State is the sole customer? What does the State pay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: And that is if the State is the sole customer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: If the State becomes the sole customer, what is the actual figure to the State?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: I thank Ms Graham.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: There is a total cost there, and there is a revenue cost. I understand that. I just wanted to understand if we switch the whole thing to the State, what the total cost is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: If the State is absorbing everything as the sole customer, the figure would be €1.2 billion in 2017?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy should speak for himself-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: -----because I do not accept it when he starts by saying I am trying to work out something. I have worked out what I need to work out. If he wants to express a view, that is grand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: That is my point of view and Deputy Eoin Ó Broin said the same thing himself.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: We are now in public session. I welcome the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and his officials. Today's meeting will deal with the expenditure outturn for 2016, the Revised Book of Estimates for 2017 and public expenditure policy issues in general. Before we begin, I remind members and witnesses to turn off their mobile phones. The interference from mobile phones affects the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: I thank the Minister. A number of Deputies have indicated they wish to contribute and the first to do so was Deputy Calleary.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: I ask the Deputy to be brief. We can come back to him.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: Deputy, I do not want to-----
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: I call Deputy Doherty because I know he is under time constraints.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: Let the Minister say his piece.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: I think the Minister has answered the Deputy's question. I call Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: I will allow Deputy David Cullinane back in with one quick question.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)
Colm Brophy: Let the Minister answer, please.