Results 16,041-16,060 of 20,884 for speaker:Alan Kelly
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: We will be on to that one in a second, I hope.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: I move amendment No. 5:In page 5, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:"(3) Part 8 and the Water Services Acts 2007 to 2014 may be cited together as the Water Services Acts 2007 to 2015.".
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Deputy for the clarification. It is a fair point. The purpose of the Bill is to clarify who will be liable for water bills by setting out the respective responsibilities of landlords and tenants. If the landlord does not register the premises, he or she is liable for the bill. If somebody does not register with Irish Water, he or she will lose the €100 grant.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: The Deputy was proposing this long before the deadline. I presume people have already lost their €100 grant because they followed his advice. I will not call them a gang or a cabal. His supporters or friends did not register and they have lost €100 as a result. They will get the default bill and they will not be able to beat the cap. It could also cost them an accumulating...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: He is going to show solidarity with the biggest political climb-down in the history of modern Europe. I fundamentally disagree with the Deputy that he is being straight up with people by claiming they will never have to pay. I wish him luck in that regard.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: I do not agree with how he has been conducting his business. He is leading people to the top of the hill and then he will blatantly abandon them. I look forward to the day when he runs out of cheques to pay the bills of all the people who come to his door because of the advice he gave them. It is all very well to say there is a possibility but the reality is that he is leading people...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: The Deputies can laugh but if major industries cannot plan on the basis of reliable and clean water supplies over the next 30 years, they will not invest in this country. That would impact on jobs and real people's lives. Would the Deputies feel a sense of responsibility to those people? I am averse to debates on the rural-urban divide because I lived for many years in Cork and Dublin.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: I have to acknowledge that people in rural Ireland -----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: ----- work in an important agriculture and food production industry.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: I am not repeating anything. I am answering Deputy Murphy's questions. I never saw him speak to rural people. I would be surprised if he even knows how to find the countryside.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: I have not seen him speaking to large employers or those who work in water dependent agri-industries. I have not seen him visit group water schemes. In fact, I have not seen him pass the Red Cow roundabout.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: This is the first time I said it.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: It is the first time he heard me say it in this debate.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: I forgot that. I withdraw everything.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: The Deputy will have to take responsibility for the misinformation he is giving out. He will disagree with me on that, of course, but he will be held to account for it when he is asked to pay the bills for the people he is misrepresenting. I agree with him in regard to deposits. We are agreeing on more than we expected. Deposits are very important. I was in the rental sector for many...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: The Deputy will not be talking about it. He will be sunning himself in Greece.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: We will miss the Deputy.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: Was it something to do with Greece?
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: Yes, we are going around in circles. One of my colleagues printed off the meter reading process published on the website, which shows exactly how one can read one's meter. Deputy Paul Murphy can use whatever language and sell whatever message he wants. It is his own business and I cannot stop him, nor do I intend to. He can say he is going to defeat this, that and the other and fair play...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)
Alan Kelly: We have many similar views within-----