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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: It has not done very well so far.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: It has a very bad record.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: Machines talking to machines.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: This is the regulator that the Minister has in store for us in respect of Irish Water. I have no confidence in that regulator. Similarly, I have no confidence in ComReg. As we know from mobile telephone charges over the years, there were situations in which companies were allowed to do what they liked. They were able to gouge us right, left and centre. They got away with murder,...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: He refused to engage in an excellent debate precipitated by Deputy Donnelly. We were trying to have a Committee Stage debate but, unfortunately, we were closed down this morning by the Ceann Comhairle. The suspension and the vote were despicable actions by the outgoing Government.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: I protest this in the strongest manner. The Deputy is a senior Parliamentarian and former Minister of State. One of the best Parliamentarians in the history of this House was treated shamefully.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: Unfortunately the Ceann Comhairle precipitated that -----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: ----- by refusing to allow -----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: ----- the debate to conclude. We thought the Minister and Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, were going home to do their obair bhaile and would come back in to us with numbers. We thought they would be up to 3 a.m. or 4 a.m., sweating through the figures -----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: ----- and coming back with an early morning report.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: When we look back in 18 months' time, and Irish Water has ceased to exist -----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: ----- we will say that the events of last night and this morning were some of the most shameful -----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: ----- in the history of Dáil Éireann.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: It shows, once again, that one reform we require, hopefully in the next Dáil, is a free vote for Ceann Comhairle. Let the best Parliamentarian, from whatever party, get the position.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: We should have a free vote
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: I support amendment No. 29 because of my experience of regulation.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: Taking up the last point, we learned this morning from Ofwat, which is the water regulator in the UK, that the average charge across the UK is approaching £400 per household. It shows the fate that could lie ahead for this country. Thames Water and a number of the UK water companies were deeply involved subcontractors to some of the Irish local authorities so they know the water and...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: I also strongly support the amendment. I heard what the Ceann Comhairle had to say about the debate which took place last night. I am of the view that it was very much directly related to the actual content-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: -----of the Bill and the fact that we were not provided with the relevant figures. Amendment No. 29 is very good in that it moves the concept of the forum away from reference to "customers". Citizens of this State are increasingly being turned into customers and consumers by the Government. In that context, the amendment refers to householders, commercial water users - obviously,...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: Labour did not.