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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: That is a different matter.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Some of you oppose everything.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Some in the House will oppose everything and the hypocrisy of some people, although not Deputy Broughan, beggars belief.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes, a Cheann Comhairle. The forum, as I understand it, will represent the interests of the customers, the people to whom Deputy Stanley refers in his amendment, including the householder and the commercial water user. Perhaps we need to see more dialogue and communication, which is what the forum is trying to do. I welcome that. Any of us who attended and spoke at the clinics-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Any of us who spoke at or attended the clinics of Irish Water in Leinster House will recognise that this is an opportunity for us to engage with it. The important point here is that the forum will allow a channel of communication and will allow for the stakeholder, which is the citizen, to engage properly in discourse with Irish Water. Rather than oppose it, we should embrace it as a model...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Yes, that is the point. That is not what we are doing here.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: What we are doing here is giving an opportunity to the citizen, the user, to engage or interface, which is the new modern term, with one another. Rather than oppose it, we should embrace what the forum is trying to do and see how it works. The reality is that if we do not, we will have missed an opportunity.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The system is working.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Acknowledge that the system is working.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: To clarify, I was in the Chair at that time. Deputy Healy's proposal was not in accordance with Standing Orders. The only proposal that is valid is the one put forward by Deputy Higgins.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: If that is the case, then the Deputy did not make his proposal an hour ago.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The Chair has ruled. Deputy Ó Snodaigh needs to read the Standing Orders. The Chair has discretion in this matter.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The farce has been created by the Opposition.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: What did the Minister say? Deputy Mattie McGrath stated that he did not hear it.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: How did Deputy Mattie McGrath hear it if he was not here?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy said that he had not heard it. Who told him?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Who told the Deputy?

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The Deputy did not hear what the Minister said.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: So are the fellows around him.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Will Deputies please take their seats?