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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: Show me where it is in the section.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: I do not mind what the Minister said, with respect. I am dealing with the Bill here. Section 3 deals with water charges and dwellings. It sets out what the charges will be. It does not deal with an EU directive.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: I do not care what the Minister said. A Minister can be wrong as well as a Deputy can be wrong. We should not be straying into areas.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: If he misleads the House, he will have to come back in and correct the record.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: That is not in the section we are debating.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: It is not relevant. I am dealing with the practicalities of the section.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: We are not discussing a principle.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: This is becoming quite absurd.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: The Minister has replied. As far as I am concerned, it is now time to put the question.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: 7 o’clock I have to again ask for the Deputy's co-operation. On a Committee Stage debate on a section of a Bill, having gone through all the amendments, we cannot engage in questioning about costs or anything else. It is not in accordance with Standing Orders.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: It is not relevant to the legislation. It will not change the legislation.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: There is no amendment. We are dealing with the section. The amendments to that section have already been dealt with. We are talking about the principle of the section.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: I have to again interrupt. This is not Question Time, it is a Committee Stage discussion on a Bill. We have dealt with all the amendments to the section. We are now dealing with the section. The Deputy cannot go on asking questions about costs and so on. That is not suitable when we are debating the section. I ask the Deputy to please read the salient rulings and Standing Orders.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: It is not up to the Deputy to be answering questions from Ministers or anybody else. This is not a debate on the section.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: In a Committee Stage debate when discussing the section Deputies do not discuss matters that have already been raised during the course of the debate on that section by way of amendments. Those are the Standing Orders.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: The Standing Order is that while Members have a right to discuss a section he or she may not repeat what has already been said on various amendments to it.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: We cannot deal with matters that have been dealt with by way of amendments.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: If the Deputy does not co-operate with the Chair and try to get through some of this we will be here forever. The Deputy cannot go back on a Second Stage debate.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: It is a Second Stage debate.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Seán Barrett: It is not Question Time. It is when we debate the section of a Bill.