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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy never wants to listen.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: I have to say I have learned about this myself. It is very important to listen.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: When a water meter is installed, it is easy to determine whether there is a leak inside the house or between the meter and the house. The more leaks that are determined, the less treated water is wasted and, therefore, the less cost there is in having to produce it. When the country has been metered, obviously it will be very easy to determine the output from reservoirs and the input and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: The establishment of Irish Water cost approximately €170 million. That has been saved on the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----restructuring of the tender-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----and the restructuring at Ringsend.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: Yes, it does.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: The realignment-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----of the upgrading of the Galway plant saves €100,000 a month.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is about time the Deputy began to look at the bigger picture, for example with regard to what we will have to do in the next 15 to 20 years. How will Dublin city be supplied with water?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: Is it going to come down through Poulaphouca and Ballymore Eustace?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: Does the Deputy think that if Dublin city expands by another 50,000 or 60,000 people-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----there will be enough water to deal with that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin's party allowed a situation in which nothing was done with this country's piping system for 50 years. Is the Deputy aware that there are pipes in this city that are caked inside and the bore is less than two inches when it should be much more than that? All of that has to be replaced. More than 1 million people are on a knife edge with an inadequate water supply. While the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----the right thing to do in the interests of conservation. If we are to have an effective system, we need to be able to fix what is wrong and to invest for the future. That is what it is about. The Deputy strayed from the question of the Economic Management Council and its constitutionality-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----to the question of water and water meters.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: I just thought the Deputy should know those things. The next time he is talking to a good plumber in Cork, he will be told that the value of having a meter is that it allows people to know what they are using and what they are losing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: That allows them to be fixed and investment to be made for the future.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy started by saying he had asked me two questions that I did not answer and he finished up on meters and water, and all of that, through the EMC. Question No. 3 asks the position regarding the Economic Management Council and Question No. 6 asks the position regarding the status of the Economic Management Council and if I would make a statement on the matter. I answered the two...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Enda Kenny: He set out a €400 charge with no relief.