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Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I objected.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I objected to them all.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: The amendments are being butchered.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I want to make a brief point about amendment Nos. 1 to 14, inclusive.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: It is a brief general point.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Barry: I want to make the point that 30 amendments to the Water Services Bill have been ruled out of order. It seems that a crude approach has been taken in ruling out amendments to this Bill. For example, my group submitted an amendment which would say that rather than the Dáil having the power to reduce the threshold for the so-called excessive use charge in five years, as proposed in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: In effect, we are discussing the regulation of the building industry today. We are discussing the building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill 2017, which effectively proposes that the State outsource control and that the industry effectively regulates the industry. I have listened to the contribution of Mr. Parlon. I thought it was interesting that he praised the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: On the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I will not address Mr. Parlon's remarks to me about bogus self employment because I will be introducing a Bill on the issue in the House soon and I will have ample opportunity at that time to make my points. In regard to the point relating to the crane operators dispute-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: The issue is related to the question of health and safety and flowing from that the question of the quality of construction work. For the record, this was an inter-union dispute that the employers had nothing to do with. In reality, the dispute was between two unions, one of which was not properly monitoring pay and health and safety issues and the other of which was prepared to do that and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (26 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the original service level agreements between local authorities and Irish Water that would have retained the services of local authority waterworks personnel to Irish Water up to 2026 have been amended; if local authority waterworks personnel will be asked to transfer to Irish Water within the next year; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (26 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: 49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if emergency measures will be put in place to properly accommodate Travellers in Spring Lane, County Cork, and other sites that have been storm damaged. [45287/17]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I will speak to amendment No. 15, particularly as the Bill relates to three and four-person households, especially four-person households. What the Minister and the supporters of the Bill have been saying is that the so-called excessive use charge, the penalty, will only apply to what are being described as water wasters, 8% of consumers of water in the State. The way in which the Bill is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: Briefly, we must have clarification of the average household issue. Our understanding of the position tallies with that of Deputy Eoin Ó Broin, which is that a five or six person household is calculated as a five or six person household but that households with one, two, three or four persons have all been calculated on the basis of the 2.6 or 2.7 figure, not what the Minister appeared...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: The Deputy should show me where it says it on the tin.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I will speak to amendment No. 24 which states: "The Minister shall report to Dáil Éireann within six months of this Act coming into effect on the number of domestic swimming pools for the purpose of levying a charge on such pools." We submitted this amendment because the legislation includes the so-called excessive use charge. As far as we are concerned this is a Trojan horse,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 24:In page 9, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(4A) The Minister shall report to Dáil Éireann within six months of this Act coming into effect on the number of domestic swimming pools for the purpose of levying a charge on such pools.”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 51:In page 17, lines 31 and 32, to delete all words from and including "section 22."." in line 31 down to and including line 32 and substitute the following:"section 22. (7) Within six months of this Act coming into effect the Minister shall--(a) commission a report on the upgrading of the water infrastructure and the volume of unaccounted water, and (b) commission a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 52:In page 18, line 2, to delete "dwelling.", and" and substitute the following:"dwelling. (1B) Within six months of this Act coming into effect the Minister shall report to Dáil Éireann on the establishment of a grant to domestic households for the purposes of water conservation.",and".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Mick Barry: I move amendment No. 53:In page 22, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following:"(4) When prescribing the regulations under subsection (3) the Minister shall ensure one third of the membership of the Forum consists of trade union representatives and one third consists of local community representatives.".