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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: It may be slightly higher than the European average but it is significantly less than usage in Britain and North America.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: That is correct. It is obviously a significant problem that only slightly more than 50% of households are metered. In the submission Irish Water has made to the committee, it is indicated that only about 3.35% of households use more than 800 litres of water. The submission further states that if leaks are excluded, the figure falls to 1.27% of households. It further states that other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: Is it correct that the cost of collecting the excessive use charge is completely disproportionate to the potential revenue? It is stated in the submission that the excessive use charge will not generate a significant revenue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: In other words, capital would have to be diverted from other projects to allow metering to continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: I wish to make a point. We have been given some very significant information by the CER that it has effectively recommended that the metering programme be stopped and that, if it is not, moneys will have to be found elsewhere or diverted from other purposes. In the circumstances, on the basis of the information we have received from the CER, it would be appropriate for the committee to make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: Will Irish Water confirm that it has been?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: I seek confirmation. When was the progamme stopped?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: Can I receive clarification?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: I have not. I was told the metering programme had been stopped. I am now being told it has not been stopped completely. Can we receive confirmation as to when it will be completed and when it will be stopped?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: No. When will Irish Water stop the metering programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: As the end of this month. I thank Mr. Grant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Séamus Healy: We have now received confirmation that the metering programme will finally be stopped on 31 January this year.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (16 Dec 2016)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 88:In page 38, to delete lines 29 to 35, and in page 39, to delete lines 1 to 3.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (16 Dec 2016)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 91:In page 39, to delete lines 21 to 24.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 80:In page 38, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:"Restriction on termination of tenancies of buy-to-let dwellings34.The Residential Tenancies Act 2004 is amended by inserting the following section after section 34:"Restriction on termination of tenancies of buy-to-let dwellings34A.(1) A Part 4 tenancy may not be terminated by the landlord on the ground...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Séamus Healy: I move amendment No. 53:In page 38, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“29.Dáil Éireann formally declares that a housing emergency exists in the State and while this emergency continues the right of any person to remain in the dwelling in which the person currently resides will take precedence over any property right of any other person—(a) accordingly no...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Séamus Healy: This rental strategy is the product of the new coalition Government of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Independent Alliance. It is a charade and pretence which is deeply flawed. It does nothing for families facing eviction or renters, in particular those currently paying extortionate rents. We should stop adding to the crisis. It is about time the Government and the Dáil accepted...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Séamus Healy: I support amendment No. 8 in the name of Deputy Broughan. There has been a historical difficulty in ensuring that where drivers were convicted in court, penalty points or disqualifications were registered on their licences. It is an area that PARC, the road safety organisation, has targeted over the past number of years. Members attended local courts to monitor the situation and to...

Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)

Séamus Healy: New politics was supposed to mean that this House organised its own affairs. What we have this morning is total disrespect for the House and its Members on the part of the Government. If new politics means anything, we are surely entitled to organise our own affairs collectively and not have anything imposed on us by the Government party and Fianna Fáil. We are all entitled to our own...