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Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: The assessments for the use of water by children have certainly changed since the original assessments were carried out based on water usage in a different jurisdiction as we did not have water meters here at all. The regulator will determine that amount.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: In the process of the public consultation which took place, I would have thought the Oireachtas committee could have called the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government before it to discuss the matter. The public consultation took place and it was quite comprehensive. The public consultation did not result in any change of policy or direction from the Government to the...

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Government set the direction very clear and the regulator will make the final decision.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: Irish Water is entitled to make its case but the Government direction or instruction has not and will not change.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I think the Minister deserves the courtesy of making the statement he is about to make.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am interested in the Deputy's remark about the primacy of Parliament. He certainly abdicated his responsibility in that regard on a number of occasions over the years.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I am interested in Deputy Martin's new-found interest in a property tax, which he does not want now but on which he had a proposition to make it heavier than is currently the case.

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: The introduction of a property charge is part of the process of developing a system that is as fair and equitable as possible for people to contribute to the provision of services and the running of our country. Increasing income tax as an alternative to a fair property charge would have a very negative impact on the economy, jobs and the general situation. The ESRI pointed out that the...

Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: There are degrees of cynicism.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: It has gone through the pre-legislative phase and it is now being drafted - the report has come back on it. The targets and objectives set here both for 2020 and for 2030 will be very challenging. We need to be able to work backwards from the 2030 situation in order that whoever is in government from 2020 onwards will not be faced with very significant fines because, in my view, of the way...

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: We have started drafting. I will advise the Deputy on the progress being made on it. It went through the pre-legislative stage already.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: That is what I was just talking to Deputy Catherine Murphy about.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: That is equality now, is it not? Deputy Murphy was first in and she got the answer.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Government approved three amendments to the gambling Bill this morning for the Minister for Finance, where the Revenue Commissioners are involved in terms of licences to deal with online and remote operations for gambling-----

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: -----pending the introduction of the gambling regulator.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: That Bill was finished here last week and it has gone to the Seanad.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: It is awaiting Committee Stage in the Dáil.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: Perhaps the Deputy was absent for the Second Stage debate.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: The Deputy can get his office to check; there was a debate here.

Order of Business (1 Jul 2014)

Enda Kenny: I know the Deputy is interested in this. If I recall correctly, the Deputy, himself, received massive publicity for answering telephone calls or making bills of them. He got more publicity out of that than people did for years of hard labour here.