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- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In so far as the Minister claims that this Bill is geared towards water conservation, it is not directed at the majority of people but at a very small group which is identified as excessive users. We do not accept that is the main motive and we have expressed the view that it is a means of keeping a foot in on domestic charging so that over time the thresholds will be lowered bringing more...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not get it finished tonight.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who knows.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It will be through in the morning. This is quite an important amendment. It speaks to how seriously we take the question of conservation and who we think can help inform a policy or a conscientious approach towards the management, conservation and protection of our water resources. I made the point already that the first answer to that question lies with those who work in water...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Many points have been made but it is worth underlining that if one talks to people in the local authorities, and this is true with regard to both housing and water, they always know what needs to be done. The problem has been that they were not resourced to do it. There are not enough people employed in the local authorities because we have run down the staffing numbers, particularly of...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I strongly support this amendment. One of the shocking examples of the waste of money in this whole debacle of Irish Water was the installation of household meters. Anybody looking objectively and impartially at value for money for the public would have said this was madness. The amount of money that was spent on putting in these household meters was to capture what Irish Water itself said...
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very relevant.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Acting Chairman saying that he feels our pain?
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a big admission.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a bit of a give away, a bit of a reveal.
- Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I said the Government was lying about its concern for-----
- 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.