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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Local and Community Development Programme Planning (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive reply and for engaging with the network on the issue of funding.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Local and Community Development Programme Planning (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I also welcome the Minister of State. My motion concerns the seeking of funding for the women's network organisation, not only in my county but also throughout the country. It provides vital services to women, often in rural locations, who feel isolated in some instances and are looking for support and information on access to services. The networks do that work excellently, but cannot do...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I know some of the Senator's colleagues do not think that water falls from the sky but it does.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Let me quote: I’m against water charging. Water is a necessity, I’ve always believed essential services like water should be delivered as a public service. A flat household charge would be unfair and does not discriminate between houses with five bathrooms or none, and metering is unworkable.Deputy Eamon Gilmore stated this in the Irish Examineron 28 June 2010.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Our friend Deputy Rabbitte, the former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, said on RTE on Sunday, 2 June 2012: “Isn’t that what you ... do during an election?”

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Just in case the Minister did not hear me, he should note the former leader of the Labour Party said he was against Irish Water. He also said: Water is a necessity, I’ve always believed essential services like water should be delivered as a public service. A flat household charge would be unfair and does not discriminate between houses with five bathrooms or none, and metering is...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: -----that he went along and where he fell off his horse and eventually decided-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: -----to listen to Deputy Pat Rabbitte? The real Labour Party policy is: "Isn't that what you ... do during an election?"

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I only give the facts.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: It is all right. I think I will be able to handle the barbs coming from the other side.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I welcome engagement with the Minister at any time on this issue. I am only putting on the record of this House statements by the Labour Party in 2010 and the real facts behind what it said when Deputy Rabbitte, in a moment of clarity and truth, said: "Isn't that what you ... do during an election?" One promises but does not ever believe one is going to deliver. Another Minister made what...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: It is not a question is how we would pay for water but of how the 500,000 people who do not have money at the end of the month would do so.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Why is it that the man in south Dublin who is on €500,000 per year is being charged the same as a person who has nothing at the end of the week or month?

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: What the Government is doing in this Bill-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: -----and what Senators must be mindful of when they vote on it is asking 500,000 people to choose between paying their water bill-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: -----and buying food to on their tables for their children. The facts are from the Irish League of Credit Unions, which says 500,000 citizens of this State, not customers, as Irish Water would call them, are being abandoned by the Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: The Minister says he does not govern for people who do not agree with him. The Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, says that if there are people who have a problem paying €3 per week, he does not govern for them either. Senators have the power to bring the Government's madness on this to a halt and answer the fundamental question as to how 500,000 citizens in the State who do...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: It is the same one.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: There is an echo in here. It has been reverberating around the Chamber for three years.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Indeed.