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Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am just giving the reason and will do so briefly.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am opposing the Order of Business. I am simply saying the Government should provide time to allow a proper, comprehensive debate on Irish Water, something the House has been denied from the start. Over 12 months ago the Opposition walked out of the Chamber because of the use of the guillotine in the debate on the Water Services Bill. It was a disgrace. Subsequently, commitments that...

Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is not an abuse of the Order of Business.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: I also put it to the Taoiseach-----

Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----that the Government has lost a vote in the Seanad on the holding of a referendum to prohibit the privatisation of Irish Water.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Labour Party Senators voted with Fianna Fáil and other Senators in favour of holding a referendum to prohibit privatisation. My point is that we need government time to discuss the water issue.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: You are being unreasonable.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am opposing it.

Order of Business (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: We can say we support something and that we are opposing something. Under Standing Orders, we are entitled to give an explanation for why we are opposing something.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: We actually have addressed that. Can the Taoiseach answer the straight question I asked? What level of revenue is required?

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: I cannot hear what the Taoiseach is saying. The Taoiseach is speaking but he is inaudible. Will the Taoiseach tell us the figure for God's sake? This is ridiculous - he is mumbling under his breath.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: This is ridiculous - the Taoiseach is mumbling under his breath. Is binn béal ina thost. Sin an tuairim atá ag an Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday the Tánaiste stated in the Dáil that a family of four adults would face a water bill below €200.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach could not or would not say that yesterday.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: A spokesman subsequently stated that the Tánaiste was expressing a "personal view". However, Fine Gael Cabinet sources stated that they were appalled at the Tánaiste's intervention, saying that such a charge would, for some reason, be a disaster for the economy.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: Fine Gael Ministers are apparently insisting that the minimum charge must now be €250. A ministerial source told the media, specifically the Irish Daily Mail, The concern is that Joan's figure is just too low - and that it could throw the whole lot back onto the national accounts. If that happens then it blows the arithmetic .... That would be a disaster.That was a Fine Gael...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: This latest episode illustrates the shambles that this has become for the Government. There have been about nine different instances of climb-downs from the original water charge regime proposed by the Government.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Government was warned about the savage impact that the charges regime would have on families with four adults, or those with two or more adult children. I and others warned the Taoiseach time and again in the Dáil, but the Government simply ignored the issue and carried on. The meters have been ticking for the past five weeks. This means charging began on 1 October, but nobody has...

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: No audit has been carried out of the water infrastructure.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2014)

Micheál Martin: We did not have a proper debate and there was no transparency around this from the beginning. There was no accountability to the Dáil. John Tierney told a journalist, Sean O'Rourke, about consultancy costs and nobody was told about that in here. In short, the establishment of Irish Water and everything to do with it has been a telling narrative of the Government's disdain for the...