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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: We will now take questions from the two non-members of the committee, Deputies Naughten and Ó Cuív.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: Will there be a public consultation process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: Is Ms Mannion saying that Irish Water will largely follow the ESB and Bord Gáis model in this regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: We have to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: Before Mr. McGowan answers, I might add that when people do not actually have a utility bill - they cannot sit down and read something - it is harder to visualise it. It is out there in the ether, and there is a lot of uncertainty. Allied to one of the questions that Senator Naughton has asked, if somebody is, for example, on a basic social welfare payment or jobseeker's rate of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: Before I call Senator Naughton, I remind the witnesses that they have two and a half minutes each.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: I have already given Deputy Coppinger eight and a half minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: Deputy Coppinger may pass it on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: Deputy Coppinger may pass the information on to the Commission for Energy Regulation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: The Deputy has two minutes remaining.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: There were two direct questions which Mr. McGowan might like to address.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: We can raise that issue with the board of Ervia when its representatives appear before the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: We will cover those issues with the board in due course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: Do local authorities not have that information within their gift as it is?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: When will the commission have that done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: We will have everybody in to discuss those issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: I ask the Deputy to keep to the tariffs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: We will consider the matter of water tariff principles and proposals with representatives of the Commission for Energy Regulation, CER, from which I welcome Mr. Garrett Blaney, chairperson; Mr. Paul McGowan, commissioner; Ms Aoife MacEvilly, commissioner; Ms Cathy Mannion, director; Ms Bríd O'Donovan and Ms Aoife Crowe. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Political Funding (21 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: 262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the political funding paid to each qualifying independent Deputy, Senator and political party since 2007, including leader's allowance, Electoral Act funding and the qualifying parties' staffing allocation, with a breakdown of the acceptable uses for each fund; if there has been a reduction in those allocations in line with the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Library Services Funding (16 Oct 2014)
Michael McCarthy: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding for a library extension will be provided in respect of a library (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39591/14]