Results 7,921-7,940 of 8,245 for speaker:Bríd Smith
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: -----to allow a little democracy in the House, which seems increasingly to contain less and less of it.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: Before the Minister responds-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: Before the Minister responds, I wish to add my tuppence ha'penny worth to what is a bit of a sham debate. Clearly, what was intended was to table an amendment that would allow the members of the commission to be elected by this House-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: -----albeit that if we voted against it, we would lose-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: I will not repeat their names. I will not say anything about them but I do want to say-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: No, sorry, I am speaking.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: Through the Chair-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: Amendment No. 9.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: It states: "In page 4, lines 29 and 30, to delete “by either House of the Oireachtas or by both Houses of the Oireachtas” and substitute “whose composition and membership shall be approved by a vote in Dáil Éireann”."
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: I just want-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: When I have spoken, I would love the Minister to clarify-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: Jesus.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: It might be helpful but I will tell the Minister that whatever he says and whatever anyone else in this House says, at this stage, it will be clear to the public that this is a complete set-up to ignore the real issues behind the big debacle of the water charges and to ignore the real issues that got more than 90 Deputies elected to this House. The issues are those that were covered by...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: This is a set-up and all we are doing is obfuscating and arguing about the difference between a committee and a commission. Most people would not even know the difference between them anyway. The Acting Chairman is trying to stage-manage something which seeks to hoodwink the public but they will not be fooled.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: Instead, the public will be back out marching on 17 September against this awful position-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: -----that the Minister has put them in-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: What the Acting Chairman is doing in this Dáil is completely wrong.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: What the Acting Chairman's orders are doing and the way in which he and the previous Chair followed them-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: I am heading in the direction of making an argument-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)
Bríd Smith: I am not heading in the direction of the-----