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- Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am quite sure if I said to Deputies Martin and Higgins that we will suspend this hour, they would be crowing about something else.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Defence.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is proposed to take No. 15, Supplementary Estimates for Public Services [Votes 35 and 36], back from committee; No. 16, motion re membership of committee; No. 31, Water Services Bill 2014 - Committee and Remaining Stages, to adjourn after one hour if not previously concluded. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1) the Dáil shall sit later and business...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and she has done so on a number of occasions in respect of important issues. In all honesty, it is not a case of four people entering a room, making a decision and then stating that the Cabinet will accept it. We discuss matters of economic planning or, in some instances, budgetary issues to see if it might be possible to adopt a particular approach in respect of them and then ask the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: I take the Deputy's point regarding conservation, and he is right about it. This matter has been a source of discussion at local authority meetings and Department meetings over the years. We have seen on the Continent, going back a number of years, a far sharper and more effective method of collecting rainwater for use in gardens, for car washing and all of that. I see water conservation...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: First of all, the Deputy made the point about the Economic Management Council and the work that it does. Then he branched into the pipeline for water. The Bill dealing with that will be debated later tonight. There is plenty of time over the next period to discuss that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Economic Management Council has a duty to consider some of the major implications in terms of infrastructure that we have to look at for the next number of years. For instance, what does one do in terms of financing broadband for the country outside the cities and bigger towns? How does one do that? Is it to be by private contractors? Is it to be by the ESB being able to form a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is not the case. I do not know whether the Deputy was ever in a trench himself having to deal with one of those things but, believe me, it is an experience. For instance, we discussed the question of homelessness. What does one do with an issue that has been around for a long time? The point was that, in addition to the Cabinet sub-committees, which I chair myself, the Minister,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is a contribution every year of a pretty significant amount. Let me give the Deputy an example of three very small rural schemes down the west of 1,200 houses, fragmented holdings, long boreens and all of that, bad sources and everything. They are paying serious money every year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: They bundled them all together with the local authority at the time and the then Department of the Environment, fenced off the sources, put in proper pumps, fixed the leaks, and put a meter on every farm for every trough and for every house. In the first year, those 1,200 houses saved 500 million litres of water. Those people are very happy in the knowledge that they know exactly what they...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: We must get this right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy's party put the Irish people first in line to suffer economically when it introduced the bank guarantee.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes, it is true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is now changed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Irish people are now first in line to benefit from anything-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----that might come from the liquidation of the IBRC.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: The next thing is this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin also made the point-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----that €500 million has been spent on water meters.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Enda Kenny: Water meters will deal with two issues - conservation and the determination of leaks.