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Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: While there are challenges, I expect the people to see the benefit of having an entity such as Irish Water and contribute to it. The charges are €1.15 and €3 per week and the sum of €100 to which the Deputy referred is a conservation grant for people who register online.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Sometimes the Deputy amuses me, when she is clearly in competition with other Opposition parties to generate publicity for her party. She is a member of a party which proclaimed that all of its members were legislators and that they would pay the water contributions. Then, when she was caught out by Deputy Paul Murphy, further out on the left wing, she decided it would be a populist measure...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: She was followed by the Soldiers of Destiny who said they favoured water charges but thought they should be abolished.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: The consequence would be increased income tax. Yesterday I gave Deputy Mary Lou McDonald full marks for her mathematics when she was dividing the time allocated for the amendments to a particular Bill. Irish Water has received 46% of expected revenue, not 43%.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Again, I thank the 675,000 householders who have made their contributions. Given that a number of people have received bills only in the very recent past, obviously, we expect more people to contribute to what is a very important entity. We have been very clear about the charges and I do not say this glibly, as the Deputy remarked. The charge is €1.15 or €3 per week, which is...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: I was interested in Deputy Mary Lou McDonald’s comment on this issue on 2 February when she was asked how Sinn Féin would pay for water services and facilities around the country. Her answer was very clear. She said, "We would be looking at all forms of formula that would achieve that." I am not sure what it means.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: As far as the Government is concerned, Irish Water has received 46% of its expected revenue from 675,000 households, representing 2 million people. The contributions are very fair. The Government has been clear that water will not be cut off, that people will not be sent to prison, that the contribution is very modest and that it is for a very good cause for all the people and the country...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: I thought Deputy Martin might raise Irish Water today. I very much thank the 675,000 households who have paid their Irish Water bill. That represents approximately 2 million people in the country. Deputy Martin is still taking the same line as he always did, namely, to leave things as they were within an official system, both for water and for wastewater. The very fact that Irish Water...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: -----to fix all the problems that exist and to provide a proper water system and wastewater system for this country for the next 20 to 50 years. Deputy Martin does not seem to have a connection with a particular section of Irish people. They are people who have paid for their water for the past 50 years in group water schemes all over the country, who were very glad to get it. Many schemes...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: They too will get their €100 incentive from the Department of Social Protection once they register as users. Deputy Martin does not seem to recognise that at all. I have listened to many left wing people talk about the issue recently. It is the same old story. They want to pay for nothing, make no contribution, and expect someone else to do it for them.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: The Government has been very clear about this. The charge is €3 per week or €1.15 per week. That is a very modest and fair contribution.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin's party left this country in an unprecedented mess.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: He is the last person who should come in here and talk about the situation.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: I do not accept Deputy Martin's assertion.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: This is the start of a billing process. People have received their first bills. They are entitled to factor that into the budgetary strategy for their households. The Government did not increase income tax in the way Deputy Martin wants to do now. Unlike other utilities, no reminders have yet issued to households but that will happen. Irish Water is still developing its customer...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: As Deputy Martin is well aware, there are always teething problems. Approximately 182,000 properties in Irish Water's database are holiday homes and vacant dwellings. It is likely that some people are as yet unaware of their liability. I expect that people will continue to contribute.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Cowen is aware that in Castlerea and south Roscommon, 11,300 people had boil water notices lifted from their households in the past two weeks.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: The people of Castlerea had been operating under a boil water notice since November 2009. Irish Water was set up to be able to borrow independently and invest in fixing and rectifying problems due to the situation in Castlerea and in other places around the country.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: The point made by Deputy Martin on EUROSTAT is a matter for EUROSTAT, which is completely independent in the way it does its analysis of the situation in so far as Irish Water is concerned and it will make its decision in its own good time.

Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)

Enda Kenny: The health (miscellaneous provisions) Bill is scheduled for later in the year. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, will talk to each Minister, including the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, about issues that arise where shortfalls are identified in Departments or where it is deemed to be appropriate and a priority to deal with such matters. They are part of...