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- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----the anti-rural Ireland Deputy Stanley and the anti-rural Ireland Sinn Féin-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I know that the other two Deputies are really anti-rural Ireland so in fairness I will not go too hard on them because they have a huge problem-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----with everyone who lives in the country. They have a huge problem with farmers, with everybody who lives outside the M50. Therefore, in fairness to those two Deputies I will not go down that road with them.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: However, I am surprised that a rural Deputy would come out in the way he has-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----and attack a payment which is being given for the first time to anybody who provides his or her own water. I listened to last night's debate and this anti-rural agenda that is being driven by a very narrow sect-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: What is remarkable is that the bulk of the rural Fianna Fáil Deputies have nothing to say on this because they are in favour of it as a lot of Fianna Fáil Deputies-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Yes, he is on the record, in fairness to him.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: A lot of Fianna Fáil Deputies, like myself, are engaging with group water schemes on a weekly basis, dealing with problems such as leakages, broken pumps, broken UV lamps and chlorine and fluorine that needs to be bought. Deputy Coppinger might laugh at it but she has not got one scintilla of a clue-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----of what it is to live in a rural community and provide one's own services because in Deputy Coppinger's Utopia everything just arrives at one's doorstep and there is no need to pay for it. However, in my part of the country that is not the way things work. In my part of the country, people go out and form a group water scheme, they bore their own well and they provide their own water....
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Coppinger can attack farmers all she likes but it does not behove the Opposition. I hope the Fianna Fáil Party in particular will disassociate itself from the scurrilous attacks being made on the farming community because it does not do anyone any good and it certainly does not do their case any good. Like everybody else, farmers are paying commercial water rates all their...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----have had way too many burdens-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----placed on them by people like Deputy Coppinger who do not have a clue of what it is to operate in the commercial reality. The philosophy being pursued in the amendments and the contributions are the very same philosophies that have people queueing outside bank machines in Greece trying to take out €60.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: That is the reality and that is what we have descended to in this House. We are taking a very basic commodity, the most basic commodity one needs to sustain any sort of an existence. We want to make it safe and we want to ensure that the supply is intact, that the pipes do not leak, that the pumps work and, most important, that we can tell people who come into the country that they can hold...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----so for people to say that they have a difficulty in transferring the liability and the funding stream across-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Where did they expect that money to come from or do they expect to see water charges rise through the roof?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Perhaps this is what they want. Finally-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the amendment. I welcome the fact that a Bill I have been seeking for a considerable period of time is back in the House because unlike previous speakers, I think there is a lot in this Bill that means an awful lot in terms of the creation of badly needed employment, including in my constituency. From that perspective, I welcome the fact that the Bill...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I did not interrupt you so please spare me. A huge number of people pay for their water. The reason they do so is because if they did not come together as a group of citizens and provide a water service for themselves, nobody would do it for them. On the previous occasion we discussed water services, I said that there seems to be a wish among some Deputies to maintain apartheid in respect...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy does not have to shout at me because I am not listening. I have listened to enough of what she has said so she should afford me some courtesy and let me speak. I know courtesy does not come that easily to some people in here but she might just listen. Many people in my constituency have to drill their own wells. They have to drill several hundred if not several thousands of...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: This relates to the amendment because it is about the water conservation grant, which is designed to ensure that people can have a safe and potable water supply, including in a rural area where one might have groundwater that is at risk of contamination from cryptosporidium and septic tanks that do not function properly. In these cases, a person must buy an ultra-violet light to kill the...