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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Deputy Durkan was a Minister of State in the 1990s.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: The Deputy should vote with us.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: We have always paid for water.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I echo the very thoughtful comments of Deputy Cowen. I commend Deputy Catherine Murphy for proposing this amendment which probably should have been proposed in another section, section 4 perhaps, because it is a fundamental aspect of the costing for Irish Water and of the future income and expenditure of local authorities. I refer to new developments in the constituency I am proud to...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: He could have gone to the UK.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: This is about water.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: I echo the concerns of colleagues about section 8. As set out, it seems a reasonable process. What happens if CER gets it wrong? Should the Minister include an appeals mechanism? Will the Minister have any role in an appeal against the decision? I base my concerns on the lack of an appeals mechanism, other than going the legal route. I refer to the concerns I put to the Minister last...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (16 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 350. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers summoned to court to date for the offence of accessing data on a mobile telephone while driving or texting while driving; and the number of drivers convicted of this offence since the offence was established in law. [48062/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Vehicle and Driver File (16 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 654. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1,122 and 1,123 of 4 November 2014, if an agreement has now been reached between his Department and insurance companies on the conditions, including data protection safeguards, which would cover the supply of data from the national vehicle and driver file to insurance companies; and if the supply...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus Services (16 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: 655. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report in tabular form on the number of buses from the Dublin Bus fleet which have been involved in collisions resulting in head-striking injuries to cyclists and pedestrians following impact between the wing mirrors of the buses with cyclists and pedestrians in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; the nature of...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: If one looks at my newsletters, for example-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: -----on my website - it is called Northsider as you probably know, a Cheann Comhairle, and I issue it every quarter - it is consistent in the development of news and positions.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: The headline in the current issue refers to the disaster of Irish Water and demands its elimination and the end of water taxes. The striking thing about the newsletter from Irish Water is that it is totally at variance with previous newsletters. There is no consistency.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: We have the extraordinary situation whereby the chief executive has provided a range of details that are completely the opposite to what he said, although he generally sent someone else out to speak on his behalf.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: What he said in the past year and a half is farcical. I agree with Deputy Timmins and Deputy Finian McGrath. This whole thing is just a sop. When one looks at the history of Ervia, formerly Bord Gáis Éireann, it was always a very distant, remote organisation. Many felt it was not a cost-conscious organisation. It lashed costs onto consumers. A couple of winters ago it greatly...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: What I am trying to say is that I do not have confidence in Irish Water given the disastrous start of this semi-State company. The debacle is ongoing. Following the next general election and however the numbers fall, I hope Members from the high backbenches who have fought so valiantly for the Irish people in recent days in particular will be in the process of driving the next Government...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Deputy Fergus O'Dowd could possibly end up on this side of the House.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Fair enough, I will speak on section 7.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: Deputy Fergus O'Dowd was responsible for NewERA and he said Irish Water was a disaster. Deputy O'Dowd and I have a lot in common on many policy issues. When Irish Water is dissolved and we have a new system, and we take this incubus off the back of the Irish people, we will look back and ask how on earth it happened. Unfortunately, it will not be a good chapter in the Minister's legacy or...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Tommy Broughan: The key part of section 7 is subsection (4) which states: "The Minister shall make regulations in respect of the composition of, and the conditions of membership of, the Forum." That should have been teased out and probably put into legislation itself. There did seem to be a system, for example, in regard to the Central Bank's forum which involved public advertisements. Any member of the...