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- Topical Issue Debate: Water Charges Exemptions (13 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: I wanted the senior Minister here or at least the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, who were the ones who made statements last week with regard to free water for those under 18 years according to the Government scheme and to answer for the fact that every objective yardstick available to the Department shows that the allowance they have proposed does not add up to that. The Minister, Deputy...
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Charges Exemptions (13 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: Of course, he cannot.
- Topical Issue Debate: Water Charges Exemptions (13 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, shames herself coming in here today and engaging in deliberate obfuscation and giving me the whole policy that I did not ask for and that I am aware of. She singularly failed to address the key issue I raised, which is, that an allowance of 38,000 litres a year for an under 18 year old does not amount to what she called "free" water for children...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the next debate on Northern Ireland will be held in Dáil Éireann. [10468/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: 35. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings with UK political leaders during the state visit of President Michael D. Higgins. [19933/14]
- Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (8 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: The resignation of the Minister for Justice and Equality is an outright condemnation of the top leadership of the Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition Government. The Taoiseach; his deputy, the Tánaiste, Deputy Eamonn Gilmore, and the most senior Ministers stuck to the former Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, like limpets when it was already obvious that he was...
- Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (8 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----I demonstrated in the Dáil last night that the 38,000 litre per year allowance for under 18 year olds fell 16,000 litres short of what might constitute a so-called free allowance for under 18 year olds. I will pursue with the Taoiseach next week the truth of this matter. It will not go on for months in the same way that the Taoiseach allowed the former Minister for Justice and...
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: Absolutely.
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is a total falsehood.
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: Answer first the falsehood that I pointed out to the Minister-----
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: It does not. I have demonstrated already that that is not the case. It is not true.
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Minister of State just answer the questions?
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, told an absolute falsehood on RTE television last night when he said that children, meaning those aged under 18, will have free water based on an allowance of 38,000 litres per year, or 104 litres per day. The Dublin region water supply project, which is sponsored by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, has noted that 148 litres...
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: I am asking him to respond. I have allowed him time to tell the truth about the situation.
- Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Chair ask the Minister to respond?
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach make time available next week - or certainly before 23 May - for a debate in order that we might clarify the Government's position in respect of water charges? I analysed the figures the Government released yesterday and discovered that the claim to the effect that the additional allowance of 38,000 litres per year in respect of each child under 18 years of age will mean...
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: That figure falls way below the normal amount of water used by those between 15 and 17 years of age.
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach's proposal is therefore based on a complete falsehood.
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: Families and others must be made aware of that fact. When will clarification on this matter be forthcoming in order that we might tell people the truth about this issue?
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will be obliged to do so, because it is not possible-----