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Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: I point out to the Deputy that we are all the same across the country. People in rural areas have been paying water charges for years. Many people pay privately for pumps, chemicals and treatment for their own water supplies. Those on thousands of group water schemes have contributed every year for water and they never ask the question because they know it is important. The Deputy comes...

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Government wants to be fair, equitable and affordable. The Government, of course, recognises that any charge has to be an imposition on people, but this charge is a necessary contribution as we set out to develop a proper water infrastructure for the country. That is why the Government has set policy directions for the regulator in terms of the average metered water charge, the...

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: All of that means that many hundreds of thousands of people will benefit as a consequence of having better water and not having to live under boil-water notices. Businesses will know that the water supply they have is not on a 98% knife-edge all the time. It will allow us to be a country that can continue to be attractive for investment, attractive for the location of industry and jobs...

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: I do not agree with Deputy O'Dowd's comment that Irish Water is an unmitigated disaster. I agree Irish Water certainly had teething problems during the course of its being set up. I also agree Irish Water is here to stay. It is a fundamental concept and it is an entity to deal with the situation which was allowed to develop over many years whereby we pay €1.2 billion to produce...

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: Irish Water is here to stay. It is a fundamentally important State agency held in public ownership for the development for the good of the country, unlike the situation, I might add, whereby Deputy Martin supported the Irish Water concept but had an average charge of €400 with no allowances.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: In other words, the Deputy is a little bit like St. Augustine in that he wants it but not just now.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: Irish Water is here to stay. The Government will move on a number of other proposals for the amalgamation of Bord Gáis and Irish Water into Ervia, with appropriate competency to run what is one of the largest entities since the foundation of the State, the fundamentally important issue of water for personal, social and economic reasons and the development of our nation as a place fit to...

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am not dismissing it. I have admitted that obviously there were teething problems in the setting up of Irish water. The former Deputy O'Dowd was the Minister of State who dealt with setting it up.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: He dealt with NewERA and piloted the Bill through the House. Perhaps if some of these issues had been brought to his attention then-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----he might have been able to change them before it went through. The water regulator has determined the average bill will be less than €240 per year.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: He further confirmed that 80% of all bills will be less than €24 per month.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: We also welcome the fact the regulator has adhered to the Government direction that there be a free allowance of 30,000 litres per household for water usage and an allowance for every child under 18. I have said to the Deputy before that a person living alone will have approximately 40% of his or her water needs provided by the allowance and will pay approximately €138 per annum or...

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: These reforms are essential for future provision of quality water services following the debacle that went on for years. In respect of the pay situation, the regulator has ordered and instructed Irish Water to reduce its cost base by €170 million, or 8%, by 2016 which includes a substantial element of the pay situation.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: I thought Deputy Adams was coming here to tell us why he did not submit his budget proposition today. I thought he was coming here to explain to the nation why Sinn Féin suddenly decided water charges for residential households should be scrapped. The one thing the Deputy forgot with all his information was that by so doing in the way he proposes, it goes back on to the public pay bill...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: I propose to take Questions Nos. 114 and 116 together. The Minister of State for European Affairs with special responsibility for data protection is being assigned to the Department of Justice and Equality and will attend Justice and Home Affairs Councils as appropriate.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Budgets (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: The table below details the total allocated budget for my Department from 2011 to 2014 and the actual outturns in each subhead. Vote 2 - DOT 2011 Budget Allocation 2011 Outturn 2012 Budget Allocation 2012 Outturn 2013 Budget Allocation 2013 Outturn 2014 Budget Allocation Outturn to end Sept 2014 A Subheads - Administrative €'000 €'000 €'000 €'000...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Convention produced nine reports in total, all of which have been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. In response to the recommendations in reports of the Convention on the Constitution, the Government has already announced that it will bring forward proposals in 2015 for referendums on same-sex marriage, reducing the voting age to 16 and reducing the age of candidacy for...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: IBEC Membership (7 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: No State agencies or organisations under the remit of my Department are paid up members of IBEC.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: I answered questions on this reform Bill yesterday. Of course, we value the great work done by so many around the country as home helps. This issue is now the subject of discussions between the Minister for Health and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform which will be concluded in the coming days in time for the budget which is to be announced on 14 October.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Enda Kenny: I saw an excerpt of the programme which dealt with a foundation for elderly people. I do not know the details, but it reminds me of the great expenditure on a field to build a prison some years ago.