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- 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]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is for all transport and not just Irish Rail.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They should all be subsidised.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, will next meet. [44043/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to ask about the sub-committee on public services and whether it is considering the Government's responsibility for the current rail dispute. Subsidies for transport services, specifically rail services, have decreased dramatically since 2008, from €181 million to €117 million. If the Government was simply to restore the level of subvention to Irish Rail in 2008, Irish...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To be helpful, the group is called Solidarity-People Before Profit.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy to say the words. My question relates to the so-called Paradise Papers. The Government was supposed to transpose in June this year the EU anti-money-laundering directive which requires that we have information on the ultimate beneficial ownership of companies and corporate entities. This relates very much to the tax dodging of the Irish rich and Irish corporations revealed in...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the collusion of banks, possibly of legislation brought in by this Government, and wealthy individuals in tax evasion.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made my point, indeed.