Results 16,461-16,480 of 23,892 for speaker:Michael Healy-Rae
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: I have a few questions that can be bunched together if that is all right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: To be honest, Chairman, it will take too long if we do it that way. How many questions does the Deputy have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: I have nearly 20 questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: It would take me less than ten minutes to ask my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: If the Chairman had allowed me to continue I would have half of them asked at this stage.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: Before doing so I wish to say, with all due respect, that members came here today to ask questions. I have been here since the start of the meeting awaiting my turn to speak. It is very unfair of the Chairman to let Irish Water give a detailed presentation, which took a long time to deliver, and not accord us the same time to respond. I do not know how long we listened to the informative...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: The whole purpose of today-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: Why did the Chairman allow the petition to come in here if he is not going to allow us to ask questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: Why are we here if we cannot ask questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Chairman. I have given the secretariat my full list of questions. I would appreciate if each of them could be answered, at the convenience of the witnesses, within the next week. Why did Irish Water make a mistake in the specification for the supply of water meter boxes that should have included a requirement for the enablement of a radio signal propagation? How did Irish...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: Two years ago a broken cover on a street in Cork was reported to Irish Water. It is still broke. Do the delegates seriously think only 14 covers broke in the entire country? That is ridiculous and they cannot possibly believe it. Everybody knows. We all see broken covers at different locations. The delegates must admit that they have seen them and if they have, have they reported them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: There was a lot of noise about the questions asked and I still did not get answers. Does Irish Water hold ISO 9001:2008 quality management certification - yes or no?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: Chairman, that is a good idea. While Deputy Harrington requested that responses to the 24 questions would be forwarded to him, could the Chairman ensure that the response would issue to all the members of the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: Is it fair to say that today's meeting could be classified as round 1 and round 2 will occur when we have the benefit of the responses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: I am sorry Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: I wish to raise an issue in support of that point, Chairman. These pictures confirm that the boxes in question are being installed on roads where traffic is driving over them. At the same time, the manufacturer of these grade C surface boxes has stated clearly they are not to be used in situations involving motor vehicles. The manufacturer further states that no warranty is given or...
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is a poor answer.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: That is the problem. The Government is sitting on it.
- Order of Business (23 Sep 2015)
Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Ceann Comhairle, and it is in order. At the start of the summer, I asked the Taoiseach about a tenant purchase scheme for local authority housing. It was to be introduced but has been long-fingered by the Government. Unfortunately, many local authority tenants are waiting for the scheme to be introduced so that they might purchase their houses. Will the Minister state clearly...