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Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: The Minister has said he will not contact the Association of Irish Local Government until after the regulations have been made. He also said he does not have a problem with this. That is the problem. The composition of the forum will depend on what the Minister of the day thinks about who he or she wants to be there. In this amendment, my party is attempting to set out specific categories...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: The issue with the Association of Irish Local Government is that substantial powers have been taken from it. I suggest in the specific context of this amendment that it comprised a democratic forum. The county and city councils used to make the water plans. They had to prioritise. Their members made a significant input into the annual water plans. That has now been removed. It is not...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: They did their homework but the Ceann Comhairle did not allow them to read it out aloud.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: You need to stay quiet and stop giving out false information.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: You need to start dealing with the facts.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: I am asking the Minister to address the points I raised.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: The Deputy can telephone his party leader, the Taoiseach, as he up there today and ask him.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: Deputy Creighton does not understand what a householder, a commercial water user or representative of a trade union is. I know she has a particular problem with trade unions. A member of a trade union is a representative of a worker in Irish Water. A householder is someone who lives in a house, a flat or an apartment who has a public water supply to it. A commercial water user is someone...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: Thanks, Deputy.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: I move amendment No. 29:In page 8, line 32, after “Water” to insert the following:“including householders, commercial water users and representatives of the trade unions with members in Irish Water”.Section 7 deals with the establishment of the public water forum, the purpose of which is supposed to be to ensure that people will be represented in some fashion and...

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: On a point of order-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: There is a question of accuracy in regard to figures.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: We have not been given the figures. We asked the Minister-----

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: -----to qualify those figures overnight. We asked him to come back with the figures today and to clarify them. I ask that they be clarified before we vote on this.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: The taxpayer.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: Millionaires.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: I would like to make a point about the collection of the €100 grant. We are being told that if we pay for this, some €100 in taxes will be taken off us with one hand and handed back to us with the other hand. Then it will be counted as income for Irish Water.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: It is fantasy economics. We know now that we have heard fantasy figures here tonight.

Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)

Brian Stanley: I want to address the point that was made by the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, a minute ago. He said that if more money is needed-----