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- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is about transparency, accountability and determining and telling the people-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----the services for which the contracts were awarded-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----in the interests of investment in a situation where we cannot go on as we have been for years.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: We are spending €1.2 billion every year at the moment in dealing with water. The savings over seven years are estimated at €1.1 billion.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: In order to create the utility, we have to invest money to have it at the highest level at which it should operate.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Martin understands this himself because he has been around the wheel a few times over the years-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: This will be open to freedom of information and parliamentary questions. The Minister, Deputy Hogan, is due to speak here on Deputy Martin's party's motion later this evening, and he will answer any question in detail that the Deputy wants to ask him.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Deputy Adams has had a few debacles himself. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is the one responsible for the Freedom of Information Act.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: Above anybody else, the Minister, Deputy Howlin, has done more than many of his predecessors to make public information available through this Act.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: In respect of this Bill, when the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, was dealing with this, he read from what the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform had said. These were Deputy Howlin's words:Irish Water was only recently established and another Bill is under way [that is the Bill in the Seanad] ... which will provide for a structured reporting mechanism to the Oireachtas and the...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----because it is funded by the taxpayer to this point. The same will apply in respect of questions from Deputies who wish to ask parliamentary questions-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----or, as was clearly indicated by the chief executive yesterday, going before any of the Dáil committees, as appropriate, as regularly as is necessary. It is in everybody's interest that Deputy Adams' constituents and mine, and everybody else, have certainty about a supply of high quality water for consumers, their families, for business and for understanding that-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: One of the reasons many companies have come to this country is because of the scale of water we have and the potential to supply it to the highest level.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: We cannot have situations where the inconsistency that has grown up over the years-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----means that business and people are discommoded because of a lack of quality water. There was consternation in this city for several weeks before Christmas with difficulties out at the Poulaphouca reservoir.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: The investment going into the utility called Uisce Éireann or Irish Water is to put an end to that and, over the years, to bring about a situation where we have an entity that delivers high quality water to the most efficient standards.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: To answer Deputy Martin's question, yes, the local authorities continue as agents of Irish Water in the delivery of those new standards.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: "No" is the answer to that question. Deputy Adams did not mention the fact the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, today announced €38 million in investment for people with disabilities and the elderly in their homes, and the improvement of those-----
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: He did not mention the fact Dublin City Council reversed the decision in respect of cuts for the homeless and that €3 million extra in grants was added by the Government. As Deputy Adams knows everything, he chose very conveniently not to mention the fact that €12 billion in investment goes into provincial and rural Ireland over the next seven years as a result of the...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Martin for his question. I take full responsibility on behalf of the Government for the policy decision to shift from 34 individual local authorities providing this service to a single utility doing so, with a saving of €1.1 billion over the next seven years in operating costs, which will be in the interests of the Irish people, business, taxpayer and our country in the...