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Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: On a point of order, this is not about prosecutions. It is about recording prosecutions.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: It is a point of order.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: Is the Senator going to shoot the assessors?

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: Perhaps if the Minister was to give clarification on the questions and someone else on this side of the House could repeat verbatim what the Minister says, it might be of use to the Opposition.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: The Minister has already stated that the idea of criminalising people, which we are not doing, is already prescribed in the Water Services Act 2007. Everything they say is prescribed in it. If they took the time to read it, they would see this and we would have saved ourselves 15 minutes of meaningless talk.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: Do we need to repeal every piece of legislation, including consumer legislation, to appease the Opposition? Clearly, property rights-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: I am just trying to be helpful. We are wasting so much time here on unnecessary and irrelevant detail. It seems to be nit-picking, repeating and repetitive.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: All the points made are already covered in the 2007 Water Services Act. If Opposition Members took the time to prepare themselves before-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: -----they came in here making arguments, it would save us all a great deal of trouble. If we took a five minute recess, we could point out the relevant sections of the Water Services Act 2007.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: Civil law.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: We are not.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: Senator Ó Domhnaill had time to issue a press release as well.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: More rebuttal.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: This has nothing to do with the amendment.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: I hope Senator Ó Domhnaill will not embarrass himself by pressing this amendment. I have been extremely charitable until now in my comments on some of the amendments but the effect of this amendment would be to take the power of inspection from inspectors. This seems to be rather an unusual position to take. It is not right or wrong, it is just meaningless. I hope Senator will not...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: No, it is not wrong; I agree with the Senator on that.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: I agree it is not wrong and I agree it is not right.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: It is absolutely meaningless and cannot be argued. To use legislation to take power of inspection away from inspectors is meaningless and I hope the Senator will not embarrass himself by pressing the amendment.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: We realised that a considerable length of time ago.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 Nov 2011)

John Gilroy: The amendment referred to by the Senator relates only to the production of the certificate. It is quite clear and I do not know why anybody would need clarification on this. It is plain to anybody who can read English. There is a precedent here as if a person is stopped while in a car by a garda, he or she may be required to present a driving licence within ten days to the local Garda...