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- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: Then it decided it was against water charges. Then the party flipped again and decided it wanted to suspend water charges for perhaps three years.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: The current position is that Fianna Fáil is facilitating the comeback of water charges through the back door.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: The flip-flop party is a better definition of Fianna Fáil.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: A mandate was given to Fianna Fáil in the election. People did loan Fianna Fáil their vote and there was a clear mandate given to abolish water charges.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: At the time some Fianna Fáil candidates, including Deputies, had election posters saying a vote for Fianna Fáil was a vote to abolish water charges.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: I hope the electorate will remember that whenever the next election is held.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: One could ask what has brought us to this point. It is the fact that hundreds of thousands of people right across the State engaged in civil disobedience, protest and took to the streets in their tens of thousands. We had one of the largest, most successful mass movement organisations this country has seen in many years – the Right2Water movement - which mobilised on nine separate...
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: I will just finish on this point, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. People are not fools. They are watching this debate.
- Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: They are watching Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and people will be back on the street in their tens of thousands and they will hold Fianna Fáil to account.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: A total of 60 more people are lying on trollies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: I welcome the agreement between Vertex and the HSE. We got positive news yesterday on the provision of Orkambi and Kalydeco for sufferers of cystic fibrosis, CF. It comes during the national awareness week for cystic fibrosis. I commend Cystic Fibrosis Ireland, all the families and their supporters for their persistence in campaigning for this issue over a considerable period. However,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: I am sure the Taoiseach is well aware that the Bus Éireann strike is in its 20th day. Talks at the Workplace Relations Commission collapsed yesterday. Following that, the unions and management referred a number of issues to the Labour Court for non-binding arbitration. The Labour Court heard the issues from yesterday and the talks have resumed this morning. It is clear, however, from...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: On the same issue, the Government has sat on the Kerr report for two years. Nine priority actions and 23 recommendations are identified in the Kerr report. It is a classic case of the Government fiddling while Rome burns. In my constituency of Wicklow, two post offices are now closed pending the outcome of this review. We know about the issue of the electronic fund transfer. That is a...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: The Taoiseach is moving on.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a motor insurance company (details suppled) has the right to refuse to transfer a no claims bonus from a person's limited company to the same person when the limited company ceases to exist; if the company has the right to do so; the reason for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18424/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated annual cost of making jobseeker's transitional payment and the SUSI grant payable to lone parents regardless of the age of the youngest child or whether the family is in receipt of rent supplement. [18548/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: 212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated annual cost of reinstating the household benefits package in full, including the telephone allowance. [18588/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: 267. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no new referrals are being placed on the waiting lists for ear, nose and throat, ENT, appointments for persons at two hospitals (details supplied); when this situation will improve for persons in need of an ENT appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18427/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Apr 2017)
John Brady: 268. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the waiting list crisis for persons in need of ear, nose and throat, ENT, appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18428/17]
- Other Questions: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (11 Apr 2017)
John Brady: 63. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in the report on the impact of reduced jobseeker's payments for those aged under 26; his plans to end this discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17954/17]