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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: -----but with these incredible figures, it still looks to me, as I said earlier, like Alan in Wonderland.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: It is Alice in Wonderland.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: The figures do not add up. Deputy Donnelly and Deputy Shortall have made a consistent case tonight. It looks as though it will cost the State money to collect the water charge. I ask the Minister, Deputy Howlin, to tell me the difference between the cost of delivering 1,000 cubic litres of water through the 31 local authorities and the equivalent cost to Irish Water. The Minister, Deputy...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: They are not paying our property tax.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: Instead of Alice in Wonderland it is Alan in Wonderland.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: It was accepted but the Minister is still not proceeding in such as way as to have an immediate referendum to prevent privatisation once and for all. In light of what we saw in regard to waste management, it is inevitable that the Government will leave the door open to privatisation. It must be stated much of the work of Irish Water is already privatised. Since Irish Water was...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: I wish to make a final appeal to the Minister, Deputy Kelly, to withdraw the Bill, to abolish Irish Water and to get rid of water charges and taxes. The Minister comes from a real Labour movement background. After yesterday's protest and in view of the huge turnouts at the previous protests, he cannot be unaware of the intense anger and deep concern among people. In large part, the protest...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: When will the licensing of health care facilities Bill be brought forward? Given the significant failure of HIQA in the Áras Attracta issue, all of us in the House welcome the extension of HIQA's powers to invigilate centres for citizens with intellectual disability. Will the Minister for Health be asked by the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to bring an urgent report...
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: What about the responsibility of the Minister for Health, who is sitting beside the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform right now?
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: The buck stops with the Minister for Health.
- Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: That is his responsibility.
- Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: 7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the current status of negotiations between the Irish and British Governments regarding an intergovernmental agreement on the export of wind energy; and his views on whether a significant increase in generating electricity from wind energy here is financially and environmentally viable. [47113/14]
- Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: Will the Minister of State tell me where the intergovernmental negotiations relating to the export of offshore wind power now stand? There seems to be a feeling that these negotiations have collapsed and yet one company called Element Power still seems to be proceeding with developments on Codling Bank. Where are the negotiations at the moment?
- Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: I thank the Minister of State for that reply. I think everyone in the House is broadly in favour of renewable energy. The Minister of State probably knows that just as in some areas with onshore wind energy, the cost-benefit analysis and the Government invigilation of the proposals for offshore wind energy, particularly on the Kish and Codling Banks, which are just off the coast of the...
- Other Questions: Wind Energy Generation (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: When does the Minister of State expect the foreshore issue to come forward? Will he allow a debate if there is any proposal on marine spatial planning?
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a report on the current status of negotiations regarding the codling wind park and plans to connect directly to the energy grid of the United Kingdom. [47117/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new additional Garda public order vans and unmarked Garda cars which were purchased in 2013 and to date in 2014 in the Garda R and J districts. [47582/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: 124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to have Raheny Garda station, Dublin 5 refurbished. [47583/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: 153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances and rapid response vehicles allocated to the Dublin region; and the number of such vehicles available after hours. [47564/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Dec 2014)
Tommy Broughan: 184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to legal proceedings (details supplied) regarding alleged infringements of planning laws concerning a public right of way in north County Dublin; if his Department is monitoring the situation with regard to other alleged infringements of planning laws, particularly of a SAAO which relates...