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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: Some people have been finding revenue according to statements from-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: -----the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in recent months. I need to know what impact that will have on the Department and the potential of our committee to make a recommendation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: I thank the group for making the presentation. It was most impressive and useful. The main recommendation of the Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services and the duty of this committee thereafter is to find a funding mechanism to deal with the implementation of that. In recommending that the State become the main customer for provision of domestic use, it also, to inform Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: There was less equality and parity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: €9,000 per household.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: We need to be able to drill down here to get the average group scheme subvention. Knowing the average bill, we want to find the average subvention in respect of each household. It is not a problem if Mr. Brady does not have that information with him today but the committee would like to have it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: Has Mr. Brady quantified the value of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: We need to be able to quantify and see as plainly as possibly the cost of public and private supply and equalise them because the impression is that there is greater disparity than there might be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: It is a value too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: Just the average-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: There is the add-ons on top of the €70 subsidy. I recognise the €70 subsidy, but Mr. Brady mentioned add-ons that have not been quantified or costed. We do not have those figures.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: That is, what the State is paying. How much the State is paying in that household, the same as it is going to pay in a public-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: National Federation of Group Water Schemes (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: That is fine. I thank the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: 261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will publish the data used to determine which LEAs were eligible for designation as rent pressure zones; and if he will publish the advice and the report given to him by the Housing Agency on designations. [5398/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which the Housing Agency and ERSI calculated the rental average for each local electoral area, LEA; if they calculated by averaging the averages for each electoral division within each LEA or if they were estimated using pooled rental data of all registered tenants with an address within the LEA; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Pressure Zones (7 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether it is problematic that the towns of Maynooth and Greystones, which according to the RTB rental data have the highest rent levels and highest rent inflation in their respective counties, have not been designated as being rent pressure zone, RPZ, areas while towns, villages and townlands with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: Only if that was proposed as a policy by this committee to the Dáil-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: I will be as brief as I can. I would like to focus on one of the expert commission's four recommendations in the area of public engagement and transparency. It recommended that "an EPA administered research budget on water management and conservation is necessary and should be put in place". My question relates to the CER's engagement with the forum, which may have happened on instruction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: Will that information be made available to this committee in the coming weeks? We are under pressure to make recommendations. One would imagine that the CER would have had ample time to bring forward solutions to this problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Public Water Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Barry Cowen: A determination will also have to be made on the issue of excessive or abusive use.