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- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----and the Deputy might well serve the national interest in a major way because whoever is giving him his piece of information, he should then test them as to whether they stand up.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Irish Water estimates that a further 1,200 reduction will need to be managed through natural attrition, redeployment and a voluntary redundancy scheme. It set that out very clearly.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I am reminded of John McEnroe's comment: "You cannot be serious."
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin makes his contribution.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: He comes in here as a leader of his party and he says, "I propose that there be a €400 flat charge for water without any alleviation for anybody-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----no discrimination at all", and then he shifts entirely and says-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----"Well, actually, a bit like St. Augustine, we do not want water charges yet but..." Now Deputy Martin wants to go back to having 34 local authorities. So much for the construction-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: So much for the constructive suggestions that Deputy Martin says he put forward in the interests of the country.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I listened to somebody who knows more about the mechanics of Irish Water than either of the two of us on the radio the other day. The water meters that have been installed have identified thousands of leaks of water between-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----the boundary and the household. They have not all been fixed, but the equivalent given by the engineering section-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----was the usage of water by one of our entire counties. Now, Deputy Martin wants to go back to a situation where one has-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----34 local authorities dealing with this.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is what Deputy Martin wants to go back to. His financial projections are €2.8 billion out and he will not tell anybody what he is proposing-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: -----as to how he is going to reconstruct that. The savings-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I always like to speak without interruption.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The operational savings of having a single entity here are €1.1 billion in cost reductions.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: The domestic contribution out to 2021 is of the order of €1.3 billion and the capital savings, because Irish water is making these arrangements as a single utility, are about €500 million.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: That is €2.8 billion. That is the value that one is going to have in savings from setting up a single entity to provide high-standard water and wastewater treatment plants for the foreseeable future.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: I disagree with Deputy Martin fundamentally on this. He used to be on the line of a single entity and then he changed for some inexplicable reason.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)
Enda Kenny: Maybe it is because of the people on his right who want everything for nothing-----