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Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister, Deputy Coveney, spoke about the need for time for a rational debate. We have been talking about this since 2009, when Fianna Fáil and the Green Party first tried to introduce it, and we have spoken about it consistently since. In our view, the time for that debate is over and it is time to decide. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy O'Donohoe, spoke...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Therefore its expenditure is coming from revenue, so the opportunity cost is no longer valid. It will not be valid for the duration of this Government, however long it lasts. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, spoke about the absurdity of providing water on the basis of need. I made a point yesterday - although he was not in the Chamber for it - that if he wants to see...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: -----like they continue to refuse to invest in health, education, housing and child care. What does the Right2Water movement want? We want a world-class water service, funded through general taxation and provided on the basis of need rather than ability to pay. If one supports those principles, he or she should vote for the motion from the Right2Water Deputies tonight. If one does not...

Domestic Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: As Deputy Connolly spoke yesterday, it should be Deputy Seamus Healy.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 161. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department spent on local authority housing in 2015, and the number of units it delivered in tabular form. [12019/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 162. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount he has allocated for local authority housing and how many units he will deliver in 2016. [12020/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 163. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding allocated to and drawn down by associated housing bodies and the number of units delivered in 2015 in tabular form. [12021/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 164. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated to associated housing bodies and the number of units he will deliver in 2016 in tabular form. [12022/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent on housing adaptation grants in 2015 in tabular form. [12023/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Data (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated for housing adaptation grants in 2016. [12024/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 167. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department spent on Traveller accommodation in 2015. [12025/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 168. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department spent on the provision of emergency homeless accommodation in 2015. [12029/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated for the provision of emergency homeless accommodation in 2016. [12030/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the net cost and savings in abolishing water charges and the water conservation grant including its administration costs, based on the full payment of domestic charges. [12136/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 357. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount her Department spent on funding for women's refuges in 2015. [12027/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (25 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 358. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount she has allocated to spend on women's refuges in 2016. [12028/16]

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Please put him out of his misery.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Clearly more so than Deputy Dooley.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: Now the Deputy is just making it up.

Domestic Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes that a majority of Deputies elected to the Thirty-second Dáil made clear pre-election pledges to end water charges; and calls on the Government to:— immediately abolish domestic water charges; — establish a public water and sanitation board to deliver water on the basis of need; and — set a date for a referendum to...