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Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Senator and all his neighbours will be charged an extra €50 when they are already paying out for it.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That was leaked by the Minister.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I thank the Senator for that insult.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That is a civil penalty. We are talking about criminal penalties.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That is the argument Senator Gilroy made about fishermen.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That is what negotiations are for.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Sinn Féin Party Members seem to have missed this element of the motion when drawing up their amendment.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I second the amendment. We have reached an extraordinary juncture when both the Government and Sinn Féin, because it has not amended the particular part of the motion, support the development of privately owned grids.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I have. It does not amend the reference in question but merely proposes to append an additional paragraph to the motion.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I do not know who wrote the motion. It cannot have been a Fine Gael Party activist because it does not refer to that party's commitment to the North-South power line going under ground but merely calls for it to be built as soon as possible. How does that correspond with the view expressed by the Fine Gael Party before and after the election that the North-South pylon system should go under...

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: There is no mention in the Senator's amendment of the North-South power line. The Fine Gael Party gave an unequivocal undertaking not only to place it under ground but also to pay the North East Pylon Pressure Campaign €500,000 in respect of costs incurred. In regard to the east-west connector, it seems nobody spoke to the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, who promised to reroute...

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: It is so inconsistent with Fine Gael politics and policy that it is inconceivable that anybody in the party or connected with it could have written the motion. The Government proposal refers to the "potential for the development of privately owned grid solutions". The Fianna Fáil Party does not support a private grid, as we were accused of doing in the early days of the pylon controversy....

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Fianna Fáil Party in government had a very successful policy on renewable energy and a very successful fuel poverty scheme in the form of the warmer homes scheme. The Government is continuing the latter and, although I accept there is less money for it, it is the best way to tackle fuel poverty. We heard a great deal about fuel poverty from the Labour Party in opposition, and I...

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The Tánaiste claimed credit for Senator Daly's actions last week.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: That is not true.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: I am grateful for the latitude provided by the Acting Chairman.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: People are up in arms about this.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: They are sick of listening to the excuse that one should blame the previous Government. The previous Government did not draw up the Bill nor publish it. The Government was not forced to do this. It has taken-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: No, I do not want to be in contempt. I am not advocating that.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Thomas Byrne: The European Court of Justice-----