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- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In that case, can I say the Government was lying?
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I withdraw any personal reference to the Minister, but the Government was lying.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will now hear from the Minister who always tells the truth.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The thing that I do not understand is the failure to acknowledge the glaring hypocrisy and contradiction in the Government position. This contradiction which was evident from the beginning continues and persists even now that the mass movement against water charges has forced it to retreat on the levying of domestic water charges on most people. I refer to the Government's consistent and...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely do not want to carry on this for no purpose.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I will move it in a second but genuinely, at the first opportunity I had to get up and speak, I objected to the amendments prior to No. 15, which include amendments which I tabled, being ruled out of order. I asked a very specific question.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On amendment No. 7. I asked why it had been ruled out of order when other amendments of exactly the same character and content-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 7. Why was it ruled out of order when other amendments such as Nos. 16 and 18, which deal with precisely the same subjects, are allowed? I just do not understand it. It is inexplicable.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is precisely my question.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not answer the second part of my question, which is, if that amendment is out of order, why is it that other amendments which deal with exactly the same issues have, rightly, not been deemed out of order?
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is an inconsistency. I do not see how a Standing Order which rules out some amendments on a given basis, does not apply to others on the same basis. It just does not add up.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not an explanation however.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not an explanation and it shows an inconsistency and incoherence to the-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----way in which amendments are being dealt with.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15:In page 8, to delete lines 22 to 30. This is really the only opportunity we will have to shoehorn in all the other issues. It should not be like that. It does, in my opinion, curtail a debate on the issues that-----
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Interestingly, the Government, through this Bill, seeks to allow, in the section which my amendment deals with, monitoring of water usage in dwellings. That is allowed and is deemed relevant to the Bill and yet a whole series of amendments which seek to deal with water conservation and water usage more generally, and particularly wasteful water usage, have been ruled out of order and deemed...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why then does the Minister include these interesting distinctions? He can try to explain them but, to my mind, it indicates that he is trying to leave that back door open through this sort of mechanism. Then he will be able to vary what he considers excessive usage and levy charges, as soon as he thinks it is politically expedient or possible to do so. I take some comfort in the fact that...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So do I.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Before that, I want to say something on the amendments being rule out of order. I do not understand, and I say so genuinely, amendments Nos. 16 and 18 tabled by Deputies Coppinger, Barry and Paul Murphy have been allowed and we will be allowed to debate them, and rightly so. They regard the preparation of reports on swimming pools and large water features in private residences. They...
- Other Questions: State Pensions (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure pension equality by removing the band changes made to the way in which pensions are calculated and reducing the number of contributions needed to qualify for the State pension from 520 to 260; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46798/17]