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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: I meant it in a most jocose manner and it should not be taken too seriously. I call on the Minister to outline the situation regarding the fact there is no legislative backdrop to granting the national water authority to Bord Gáis. Bord Gáis is up for privatisation. Will all of the water schemes throughout Ireland and the assets built up by local authorities while providing an excellent...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: I would like to make the Minister aware this is the situation.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: I am sure he will be informed of it. We are having imposed on us the household charge, the non-principal private residence charge and the water charge. Workers are very concerned. Instead of decentralising services we are centralising the control of Ireland's water to Dublin. Local authorities are in a better position to carry out Government policy in this regard. It has been brought to...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: -----will be used for this purpose. No legislative power is involved and the Government has only now responded to The Sunday Times leak in this regard. I am very disappointed in Senator Ivana Bacik, a Labour Party candidate in the general election who opposed water charges. The Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin, withdrew the water charge. The Labour Party has done a somersault on water charges.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: I second the amendment proposed by Senator Darragh O'Brien.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: We are being set up.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: Is that worse than a rottweiler?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: That is the story.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: There is plenty of water in Killarney.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: One could sell the water in the lakes of Killarney.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: There is no time like the present.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: There was a change of Government. Frankfurt's way or Labour's way.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: No, this Government was elected on a different platform.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: It opposed water charges and household charges and everything else.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)

Terry Leyden: Senator Cummins should read his party's policies because those policies have been betrayed.

Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)

Terry Leyden: I thank the Minister. I call another proposer to the Bill, Senator Feargal Quinn, and he has six minutes.

Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)

Terry Leyden: Senator Norris's time is up.

Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)

Terry Leyden: Who is the seconder?

Seanad: Privacy Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2012)

Terry Leyden: Before calling the Minister, I welcome to the Distinguished Visitor's Gallery Professor John Horgan, a former distinguished Member of this House and the current Press Ombudsman.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Terry Leyden: Name and shame them.