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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: A dance.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Santa Claus.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: A hurricane.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Who will pay? Santa Claus?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am aghast at what I have learned about amendment No. 36 from the Minister. I am aware from being in business that if I submitted a set of accounts at the end of a financial year that contained these types of phoney figures, I would be brought before the courts by the Revenue Commissioners. It is just funny money. It is crazy. If it was Hallowe'en rather than Christmas, I would say it...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I agreed with it at the time. It was a good idea to fast-track projects. There were 17 big projects in all the big towns in south Tipperary and in many of the smaller towns and villages. The schemes were done and handed over to a private company. I cannot recall its name. What is its position now? It is probably eight to ten years into a 20 year design, build and operate contract....
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle allowing me back in to contribute as I had to leave the House. I do not disagree with one word of the Minster's comments about the employees on the ground who have been intimidated and threatened, which is unacceptable, and the staff elsewhere in the company, even though I am fundamentally opposed to Irish Water. We all have stories about that. I am...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am replying to what the Minister said. We put questions to him.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I accept that. We are putting the cart before the horse and this is the place to amend the scheme. There is no point in asking the board to do that unless they are magicians. It is like writing to Santa Claus and it is wishful thinking.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: These are pick and mix amendments. We have all kinds of things crossing back and forth from Bord Gáis, the county councils and Ervia. It is a case of "Whatever you are having yourself, Johnny." The amendments appear to be an effort to introduce a catch-all mechanism to allow local authority employees to move back and forth to Uisce Éireann with impunity. The section is not...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I also wish to speak on this amendment and if the Government was serious, I recall I brought forward a Private Members' Bill, namely, the Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014, in which I made provision for an ombudsman to be appointed because there will be disputes by the dozen and more. Members know this to be the case in respect of utilities, as does anyone with experience on the...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: ----- disputes like this can be fractious and can be niggly at the start but with the situation-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I am speaking on section 8, on dispute resolution, the customer and what is a customer in this Bill.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It just goes to show the Minister's arrogance again. That is all it does continuously again.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I might note the outcome. That is fine but I am just making the point, by way of illustration, of how disputes can turn nasty-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: ----- how an ombudsman is needed and how disputes can turn expensive. My point is that when issues arose with the county council, there always was a dedicated officer. A leakage form was available if there was a dispute, people were dealt with fairly and I salute the council officials who dealt with such issues. In this case, the customer is described in one situation by Uisce...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: There is a four month waiting list.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (16 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 599. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of funding for water infrastructure provided to South and North Tipperary County Council over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47739/14]
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I, too, am disappointed with the response to the various amendments and to the points that have been put to the Minister and the Minister of State today. With regard to the forum and the question of accountability, the Minister was asked directly in the last set of questions to which he replied if he had he met the local authority representative member associations. There were a number of...