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Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy is.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: That is not what the Deputy said.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: It is going to be.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: The Deputy is mixing up the commission and the committee.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: Acting Chairman-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: May I respond?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: May I respond?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: May I make an intervention?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: It was not.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: Acting Chairman, I would like to say something.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: Could I clarify-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: I wish to clarify a number of matters. First, we are on Report and Final Stages of this short piece of legislation. There was an opportunity to debate many of the issues that Deputies Murphy, Coppinger and Smith raised on Second Stage. That is why we had a Second Stage. There was a further discussion on Committee Stage during which a number of these issues were raised, so the suggestion...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: We will then have an Oireachtas committee set up-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: -----which is what both of these amendments refer to. The committee will be set up in the normal way in the House. It will not be chosen by the Government alone. It will be fully representative of this House and will be set up in the normal way. That committee will consider the recommendations of the commission but will make its own recommendations and its own judgment on what the...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: -----the setting up of an Oireachtas committee, which-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: I have spoken about the commission on many occasions.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: We have had an opportunity to debate it but we are debating legislation here which does not provide specifically for that commission and the Deputy knows it. Amendment No. 9, again tabled by the Anti-Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit, proposes to restrict approval of the membership and the composition of the proposed Oireachtas committee tasked with making recommendations on the...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: -----over the next five months, so can we please deal with the issues-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: -----that these two amendments deal with. The first amendment-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Simon Coveney: In regard to amendment No. 8, what is being proposed here is that the committee could not be set up before the enactment of the Bill. It is up to the House how and when to set that committee up and the composition of it. There is plenty of time to do that and it is catered for in the legislation by referring to a committee set up by the Houses of the Oireachtas. Amendment No. 8 is,...