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- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: I complained.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: I banged out the complaints.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: I would like to make a point to the Minister. What if somebody operating on behalf of Irish Water damages the front wall of the house of somebody who is not registered?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: The person is not in a position to make a complaint. As Members on the other side of the House said, he or she would have to go straight to court. That is a waste of everybody's time; only the lawyers make money out of that. It is grotesquely unfair to limit a complaints procedure to people who are customers of Irish Water. People do not want to be customers of Irish Water. It is so...
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: That is a primary mechanism.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: This is the most outrageous line in the entire Bill. It is completely disgraceful. Nothing the Minister can say about identifying with the people and all the other hogwash will cover over the fact that this is a deeply wrong and essentially undemocratic thing to have in legislation. It is also, possibly, unconstitutional because the right to appeal is a broad right under the Constitution....
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: That is the problem. If a person is not a customer he is not allowed to make a complaint.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: It disbars people from making complaints.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: Come on.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: Senator Bacik expects the forum to deal with day-to-day complaints.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: But she is talking nonsense.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: Alright, I will listen to the uninterrupted nonsense of Senator Bacik.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: Everyone is a customer because everyone is taking water from the system.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: Why have that distinction?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: Without moving at all.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: Has he accepted a single amendment?
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: If Senator Gilroy were not saying nothing he might lose his job.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: I thank Senator Gilroy for taking my advice.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: There are questions.
- Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Dec 2014)
David Norris: There are questions - plural.