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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Well said. Hear, hear.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Mumbai.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I add my name to the opponents of this section. The concept of a public water forum is to produce an overarching talking shop, but it is ill-defined in this context. Subsection (5) states:The Forum shall have the following functions:(a) to represent the interests of customers of Irish Water;Is this code for the overall pricing of the water service charge? I believe it is. The Bill...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I do not blame him. All of this is so crazy in its presentation that we should revert to first principles.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Residential households.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I second or at least echo that. Deputy Healy referred to the official way to adjourn. He might like to remind the Chair of what he said.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Let us put a little bit of context into where we are tonight. It is only days ago since the Government had to revisit the water charges scheme. Following the announcements, the EU officials from the troika who were here reviewing issues tried to start pushing us around again. I appreciate that the three gentlemen occupying the ministerial benches are not in an easy position. It is an...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: They are households.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: No, that refers to houses.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I have a point of order.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: The suggestion that we adjourn is excellent. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice, who is new to the House, put it very graciously when he said there is nothing wrong about not knowing something and having to revisit it and recalculate. That is the right thing to do. In that gracious sense, it is an opportunity to reconsider the whole issue and get the figures right. Simply put, 2 million is the...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Bingo.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Yes, thank you professor.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Not buildings.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I know that. I said earlier that the Minister should stop where he is and reassess, remeasure. That is what everybody does. Carpenters and plumbers do it and so do accountants. The Minister does not know what he is doing. It is a black hole. It is irresponsible to continue if he does not know where he is going.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: Following that last interaction between the Ceann Comhairle and the Deputy, and in response to the Minister’s response, I am forming the impression that this whole debate is meaningless because Government Deputies will come in here under the Whip and vote the Bill through without knowing what they are doing.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: That is fundamental.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: I am trying to show, like a doctor would show to a patient, that it is behaving in a way that is not going to help it get well again. The Government is behaving schizophrenically. It is not getting its facts, its situation properly measured, its accountability properly aligned and working logically from there. It could do it. However, it has got to stop what it is doing if it is about to...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Government proposed revenues of €90 million for the first year. That is 0.1 of 1% of the profits of the multinational corporations. Why does it not ask them rather than saying it has got to get €90 million in the year. That is the thin end of what is going to be an ever-expanding wedge, as other Deputies have explained. The only Government Deputies present are those who...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Peter Mathews: The Deputy is going to give us all kinds of forensic, minutiae stuff that is irrelevant.