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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a reader in school: and if this decision will be reconsidered [45627/17]

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Not agreed.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have been informed by the Bills Office and the office of the Ceann Comhairle that in cases where I challenge a decision to rule an amendment out of order I should notify the select committee in order that I can introduce the amendment in question on Report Stage in the event that the decision is overturned. It is my intention to challenge the decision in respect of amendment No. 1.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I intend to challenge that decision.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I oppose the section.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will bring that amendment forward again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The same again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The same again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The same again.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 13:In page 8, line 15, to delete "12 month" and substitute "24 month". Does the Chairman want me to discuss each of my three amendments in this section together or will we go through-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: In respect of amendment No. 13, the Bill as it stands proposes that the Commission for Energy Regulation, CER, will carry out the review within 12 months of the budget. Part of it is because I do not think it will be able to get it done within a 12 month period but also because I think that water consumption will change given that people will then know that this review is happening and,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not sure that is what the Bill will do. It might be what the Minister intends it to do, but we can discuss some of the questions in that regard as we go through the sections. First, I remind the committee what the Oireachtas committee recommended in its report before teasing out some of what the Minister said. Section 4.4 states: "The Committee recommends that the CER should...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Where is that stated in the proposed section 53A?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have an objection, but I am not going to create a row. This is a fundamental section of the Bill. Regarding section 8, the change Deputy Barry Cowen indicated does not specify explicitly to the CER what the average household number should be. That is not what it states. It might be the Deputy's interpretation of what is stated, but I am confused because it is not explicit. I am...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am asking my question sincerely. I accept the figure of 1.7 which is very clear in the legislation. The proposed section 53A(2)(b) inserted in section 8 relates to section 9 which proposes to insert section 53B(2). The latter states "the Minister shall calculate the threshold amount by multiplying [this is crucial] the average rate contained in the report furnished to him or her under...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: When the CER provided data for average household usage on the basis of its most up-to-date figures, it examined all households and total water consumption. It worked out an average figure, which gave a consumption level equivalent to a household of 2.6 or 2.7. I do not understand how it can do the same exercise, with broadly the same data but perhaps with a little change, and all of a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: The CER presented a report to the Oireachtas water committee. We had a big debate on what constituted average usage, per-person usage and household usage. It provided us with a table and came up with an average figure which was broadly equivalent to a household of 2.6 or 2.7. I am just trying to understand how an average total household consumption figure presented previously by the CER...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Yet its report to us states the initial household average figure would be equivalent to a household of 2.6 on the basis of the data.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is the Minister saying the proposed section 53A, inserted by section 8, is instructing the CER to base the average on a figure of four? That is the crucial point, but that is not how I read-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Services Bill 2017: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I doubt it, but the Minister's understanding is clear.