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- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Deputy is going around the country telling people in every constituency that the charge for water will be €1,000.That is what he and his people are saying.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The charge will be €1,000. Sinn Féin is calling on people not to pay property charges or water charges and telling them it will look after them and we will have a great country.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Adams. He does not live in the real world at all. People in Dundalk are as entitled to have legitimate concerns as people in Cork or anywhere else.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: It is good to talk about them but it is also good to remember that 80% of the bills that will go out from Irish Water will be for €24 or less per month. The Government has set out a range of supports for people in different categories and we want them to reach every household in the country. Members' contributions to last week's budget debate pointed out that a number of households...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I refer again to the reasons for setting up Irish Water, which are to deal with the poor infrastructure, the poor quality drinking water in many cases and the poor quality of treatment works. It is important we fix all these for the next 50 years. That is why Irish Water was set up. We have to move to a situation whereby Irish Water, as part of the Ervia board, can deal with the...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin. The position has been very clear for some time that this State has never invested to the extent it should have in the provision of proper infrastructure for water.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: No one, irrespective of political affiliations, can argue with the point that something needed to be done in respect of the poor quality of water and of treatment works in many areas, that 40% of water has been leaking away-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and that the charge of producing that water is very costly. No one can argue with that. When Government considered it-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----given the calamitous economic circumstances in which Fianna Fáil left the country, looking at the question of how we could invest to improve the quality, volume and integrity of the water system for the next 50 years, the Government made its decision after having looked at the PricewaterhouseCoopers report. The question was whether we should set up Irish Water as an entity on its...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I am aware of the chief executive officer's very long service to the public in general, with a lifetime career in it. I have every confidence Mr. John Tierney can do his job.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The remark that was made by a Deputy at last week's Fine Gael Parliamentary Party meeting was withdrawn. The Government recognises there are legitimate areas of public concern, on which the Government reflected this morning and on which the Government will act. The Deputy mentioned suspending water charges. I am not sure where he is coming from now because his party's programme following...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Nor is it included in its Private Members' motion scheduled for debate this evening. It seems that Fianna Fáil Members are scared witless of the guys on their right hand side and they are scared witless of the guys to the left of them.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: No.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I can answer truthfully. To my knowledge, the answer to that question is "No".
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: I do not believe Deputy Martin's heart is in this at all.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: He talks about Government ignoring advice.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Government is about making decisions. Does Deputy Martin not recall the €7 million of taxpayers' money his Government paid to an international firm that advised it against the bank guarantee which was supposed to deliver the cheapest bailout in history? Does he not remember that?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: Does he not remember the advice that Government got that it could save 1 billion quid and not be taking it from old people? The Deputy himself was advised by two senior civil servants and of course he had no responsibility for this at all. Deputy Martin talks about the bonus culture. As I have said quite clearly, the Government does not set the pay model or pay scales for commercial companies.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: No one I know complains about the efficiency, work rate, productivity or output of Ervia-Bord Gáis Éireann. The unions in that company accepted the pay model set out for them by their board. That puts an element of their pay at risk. Unless they perform they will not get that element of that pay. I do not believe that anyone who underperforms should be given a bonus or...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2014)
Enda Kenny: The targets set for Ervia have been quite stringent. I confirmed to the Deputy in the Dáil last week that no one in Irish Water had received a bonus.