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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Will staff have to be directed to do that? Every Deputy in this House understands the pain and anguish suffered by people waiting for verification that they have been granted these allowances from representations we get. Will people have to be diverted through paying the €100 grant to bribe people to register for water charges? My last point concerns the local property tax and...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I know. I was in here until 11 p.m. last night.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Downloading stuff has been very difficult. In any business and certainly in any committee on which I have ever served, things like that would be handed out in advance so people have a chance to scrutinise what the Minister is saying in asking for such big powers to shift €500 million over from motor tax that people paid-----

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Can the Minister of State also tell us whether motor tax will be increased again in the budget to fund Irish Water?

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: This is very relevant to the amendment.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I bought a car in 2011.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Motor tax has doubled since I bought the car. Other people have also experienced that. They now find out that this money is not going to roads or to upgrade signage, which we are always told it does go to and that it is ring-fenced. Rather, it is going to Irish Water. The labyrinthine funding mechanisms for Irish Water really must be explained so I would like to hear what the Minister of...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: We all pay for it.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The amendment that the Minister is proposing relates to the funding of Irish Water. I have questions on this that need to be examined. If this were Committee Stage, we would be dissecting how Irish Water is to be funded. Why are we carrying out the transfer in advance of seeing what is obtained from the payment of the water charges, for example? How do we even know that the €540...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide calculations as to the average effect of cost of living increases as calculated by the CPI since the advent of the economic crisis on the take home pay of public servants earning €30,000, €40,000 and €50,000; and the estimated impact of cost of living increases on the same categories of public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (2 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the approval of the marriage equality referendum, if he will revise the arrangements for the spouses and children's superannuation scheme for civil servants who opted not to avail of the scheme prior to August 1984 in view of the circumstances lesbian, gay and transgender persons faced at the time but have subsequently...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I wish to take up a point the Minister of State made when he attacked the Opposition for not mentioning or dealing with the issue of rural dwellers.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It does not pertain to any of the amendments tabled this evening. Since the Minister of State has opened up the debate, I will take up the issue. Dividing rural and urban dwellers is the Minister of State's stock in trade.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil rely on it sometimes, as does the Labour Party when it suits it. We have always called for the idea that anyone who can be should be linked into a public water network. Attempts should be made to do that in rural areas. People should be brought into the public system as much as possible. Where it is not possible, people should be given grants for payments...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: ----- but this position was put forward 20 years ago because we did not want a rural-urban divide then. If Irish Water is let loose and takes legs in the way the Minister of State would like it to, it will not be long before it takes control of rural group water schemes. Everyone will have to pay something towards Irish Water. In case the Minister of State thinks that is unlikely, it is...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The members of Government then whinge that we are boring them and keeping them in the House. I have a nine year old at home who wants to see me-----

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----but thanks to the Mniister of State we will be here until 11 p.m. every night in the summer.

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I assume this will continue for the next few weeks as the Government rams through other measures which it could have got through the Dáil on the many occasions debate on other legislation finished early. Then the Government wonders why-----

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----there is no women in the Dáil to be howled down and shouted at by very loud men. The Minister of State should expect a lot more. The Government is going to be challenged at every inch and on every line of these amendments to the Bill because of its manoeuvring and the way it thought it could act in the belief that we would simply give up. People have asked why we do not walk out...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and that they have to go to their community welfare officer-----