Results 9,081-9,100 of 14,706 for speaker:Phil Hogan

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I have and I will keep saying it. One has to have a valid registration, otherwise it is an offence. That clarifies Senator Mooney's question. If one does not have a valid registration, even on reregistration it has to be valid. I am prepared to consider what Senators Ó Domhnaill and Ó Clochartaigh said on the time period and the cumbersome way in which one might have to re-register. I...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I have already stated that in the regulations I intend to bring forward there will be no charge for re-registration. I intend doing that, and that is the way I will deal with it.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: No, I will not accept the amendment.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I am looking at it. That is exactly what I am doing.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I am doing it my way, not the Senator's way.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: No.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I will do it my way with the regulations.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: It will be in the regulations and I have already announced it. The Senator is getting the result by a different means.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I am not being disingenuous.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I do not have to accept the word "disingenuous" from the Senator for any purpose.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: Yes.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I will do it in the regulations, which will do the same thing.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: If I want to explain how to do that I will but I do not have to explain everything to the Senator.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: There is no reference to a charge for subsequent registration. Why should I agree to an amendment that highlights that fact? I am prepared to do that by regulations, which is fair. Why should I include a section in a Bill to draw attention to a future Minister to do it? The Senator is concerned about future Ministers but I am only a Minister about eight months and I intend staying a...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: I am making it absolutely clear to the Senator.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: Yes, and it will be laid before-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: There is more than one way of doing it. Perhaps the Senator is not long enough here to understand that.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: There is more than one way of doing it and the regulations will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas where the Deputy will see them.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: If the Senator does not want to accept that, that is fine but I am not accepting his amendment-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2011)

Phil Hogan: -----or anyone else's amendment.