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- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: We have been discussing it all night.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: So do I, but we cannot get out because of the Deputy's people.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputies would only be causing disruption.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I never mentioned Greece.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I never mentioned Greece once.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I never mentioned Greece. The Deputy should correct the record.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I like listening to the Deputy as much as he likes listening to himself.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I thank the Deputies for their various views and contributions. I disagree with a number of them. I am surprised that, with the exception of Deputy Ó Cuív, who like me has concern for rural Ireland, no Deputy expressed concern for more than 550,000 rural dwellers who already pay for water through their group water schemes, private wells or septic tanks in which they have had to...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: They have had to install, maintain and treat them over many years. Neither the parties of the left nor Sinn Féin has expressed concern for any of these people.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: Sinn Féin gave the view that it opposed the conservation grant that will assist these rural dwellers. The Sinn Féin Members were, as always, speaking out of both sides of their mouths, telling people what they want to hear on one side and on the other side coming here and making different statements.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: It was the same with the metering. Deputy Brian Stanley criticised the metering programme. In the North of Ireland, more than 30,000 meters have been installed, and they are continuously being installed, in preparation for water charges, which Sinn Féin chooses to deny, speaking out of the other sides of their mouths here in the South.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: It is a fact. I find it hard to listen to the hypocrisy I hear in the Chamber. Borrowing for metering will be repaid, just as when local authorities borrow. Where meters have been installed, we have found large volumes of water leakage. It is very obvious for people to see and when Irish Water publishes its annual reports, with the oversight of ComReg, we will see the very real benefits...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: We are going back to the debate about the fundamental need for Irish Water. Most Deputies, if they are honest with themselves, agree about the status of the water networks that we were pumping over €1 billion into, and that up to 50% of the treated water was leaking into the ground, and that there were sub-standard water treatment systems all over the country polluting river courses,...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: In 2014 the legislation provided that up to €600 million of local government fund income could be transferred from the fund to the Exchequer. In fact €520 million was transferred last year and in 2013 €100 million was transferred. Subsection (2C) continues to provide that in determining the payment to the Exchequer regard must be had to the balance in the fund when all...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: It is on the record of the House.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy did not want the rural dwellers to get the grant.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I am glad that Deputy Stanley has clarified that because it is not what I heard earlier, which is on the record of the House. The Deputy and Sinn Féin said they did not agree with the water conservation grant being given to rural dwellers who, as Deputy Ó Cuív quite rightly noted, have installed, maintained, paid for and pumped those wells and septic tanks for many years....
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: What has that got to do with the amendment?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I do not recall that. I recall Deputy Ó Cuív saying it would cost €20,000 to remediate a septic tank and that it would cost €500 to register.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Paudie Coffey: I move amendment No. 2:In page 5, line 8, to delete “and the” and substitute “, the”.Amendments Nos. 2 and 3 are technical amendments which amend the Long Title of the Bill to allow for amendment No. 20. Amendment No. 20 enables the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to make the required payment from the local government fund to the...