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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: -----with the provision in this legislation that someone who is in receipt of public water has to pay the bill or else he or she will not get the conservation grant? We all know that the grant has nothing to do with conservation.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: It is an attempt to sweeten the pill for people to accept these water charges in order that the Government can increase them at a later stage.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I have made it very clear what I think about the conservation grant. I think the Government is on thin ice with regard to the market corporation test. We know that if we fail the market corporation test, the Labour Party will say Europe told us we cannot actually do it, otherwise we will fail the market corporation test, just as it did in the past when it referred to Frankfurt's way or...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The €100 sweetener will be the first thing to go. At the end of the day, we all know where this is going. I want to take this in baby steps for the Government. This question has been occupying the Dáil for almost two hours.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I have listened to the bluster from the Minister of State and his backbenchers in relation to this matter.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: The question that is being asked is a simple one. It is about the conservation grant figures, which seem to have been drawn up on the back of an envelope. The Minister enlightened us when he said they are guesstimates.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister or the Minister of State accept that in 2011, there were 1,654,208 private households in this country?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I would like to help those backbenchers who tried to confuse the matter by referring to private households and holiday homes, etc. by telling them how "household" was defined on the census form in 2011. According to a Central Statistics Office document released on that occasion:In the census, a private household is defined as either one person living alone or a group of people living at the...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: They have to pay the Irish Water bill to get it.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a pension fund-trust which has already paid the pension levy warning its members that it may now apply a charge to their pensions retrospectively to cover the levy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47500/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that will be raised in 2014 from the collection of DIRT on the dividends paid to children who save at credit unions. [47534/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Applications (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cavan has not been able to receive their single farm payment despite having sent in the forms on time; if failure to send an application for single farm payment in the appropriate envelope but by registered post could have caused the application to be mislaid; if he will deal with...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Development Companies Funding (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 186. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list detailing all funding payments made by Donegal Local Development Company Limited to individual local community and voluntary groups since the year 2000, including the name of each group and or company which was in receipt of these payments; the amount of funding paid out with respect to each...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Maintenance (11 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all the unoccupied local authority housing in the Stranorlar, County Donegal, electoral area, including the date as and from which each unit was last occupied; if he will provide the estimated costs and timescale involved in bringing each of these unoccupied properties up to an acceptable...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (10 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the anticipated extra expenditure required next year across all Departments to maintain the current level of public services taking account of demographic changes, pending pay increments and so on and all other factors being equal. [47441/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (10 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 77. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has not received their disadvantaged area payment or their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47371/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Staff (9 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of contract, outsourced staff currently employed at the Central Bank of Ireland; the roles these contract staff perform; the daily salary for each role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46751/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Gross National Income (9 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance Ireland’s gross national income for the past three years if redomiciled public limited companies would have been excluded; and the amount by which Ireland’s contribution to the EU budget would have been reduced if these redomiciled public limited companies were excluded from the GNI figures for these years. [46758/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report - November 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I am supposed to be in the Dáil speaking about the Water Services Bill and had better go. The expenditure stuff must be teased out a great deal more. The delegates have flagged this issue on two occasions. The last point I want to make is that in its next report I encourage the council to go further on the expenditure ceiling. The report looks at how we have broken it this year,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report - November 2014: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (4 Dec 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I am sorry, but I have to leave at this stage.