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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant Scheme: Department of Health (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There are a number of questions there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant Scheme: Department of Health (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Before letting Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh to ask a final supplementary question, I have one final question. As part of the process, has Mr. Breslin considered amending equality legislation in such a way that it would permit him to introduce targeted measures? Obviously, this is an administrative scheme; has he, therefore, looked at it in that context? As that was legislation he was seen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant Scheme: Department of Health (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank our guests for coming here today. We appreciate their contribution and we will be in contact with them soon for an update. We will now suspend while we get ready to introduce our next guests. We will suspend and resume in public session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I propose that we now resume in public session. The committee is now sitting in public session in its capacity as the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions. We are dealing with petition No. 00002/2015 submitted by Mr. Con O'Leary. It is a discussion with officials from the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government and officials from Irish Water about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank Mr. Grant for his comprehensive response to the issues raised in the petition. There will be no need for him to go into the same depth of detail in responding to questions as he has already provided the details in his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: As Mr. Aidan O'Connor has referred to it in his statements, I wish to make clear that this committee has a very clear function in terms of looking at issues of concern around the public services and bringing before us the relevant parties to address the concerns raised. In this case, the relevant parties are obviously Irish Water and the Department. We do not second-guess the decisions of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To be helpful, we will take one question at a time. Is that Deputy Healy-Rae's first question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am the Chairman and I will decide the format. Does Deputy Healy-Rae want to bunch two or three connected questions together? I think it would be useful to get one answer at a time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not going to permit 20 questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I ask the Deputy to please respect the Chair. The Deputy did not indicate beforehand that he wanted to raise 20 questions. This committee has never allowed for 20 questions. I will permit the following. If he wishes to submit written questions, we will ask Irish Water to respond. I will not permit 20 questions to be put orally today. I will permit a maximum of three questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I have ruled that I will not permit 20 questions. I invite the Deputy to put his 20 questions in writing and submit them to Irish Water and the Department. I assume they will be agreeable to respond to them within a week. Is that reasonable? Yes. The Deputy will receive a response within a week. I will permit him to ask two or three questions but certainly not 20 questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Please go ahead and ask three questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Deputy will receive a response to his 20 questions within a week and he can ask three questions now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am not having this debate back and forth. I am the Chairman and I make decisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I urge the Deputy to ask three questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I suggest we suspend the meeting for a few minutes to resolve this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I shall outline what I have agreed with the members. In fairness to them, they have put a lot of work into preparing for the meeting today. I propose that we will have five questions each from both of the members here and the remaining questions will be given to the witnesses. The questions can be passed around and then we will hear a response. We will give the witnesses a hard copy of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will allow the Deputy in with a supplementary question when he has had the responses. I appreciate his co-operation. We will pass on the Deputy's 20 questions in detail. We are getting them copied. I call Deputy Harrington.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Twenty four. I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Deputy Harrington is a former member of the committee and is deputising for Deputy Pat Deering. We will ensure that all the responses are circulated to Deputy Harrington.