Results 18,701-18,720 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----where people wait months and months to get responses to appeals and the Minister is going to load all this extra work on them and he has not figured out how he is going to pay for it. He does not know the extra cost of the staff, the administration and has not added it into this. That is ridiculous.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is digging a big hole for himself. He would be better off-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The journalists will be looking and there will be an independent scrutiny of this debate and of the figures the Minister has put out. The questions we are asking will be writ large over the next few days and if it is discovered that the Minister’s maths were way out and he rammed the Bill through, despite the fact that those legitimate questions about the maths were being raised, he...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That could be €36 million.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy can explain them.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister should do so because if he thinks the fiasco and the outrage surrounding the issue of Irish Water has been bad to date, if he has got this wrong, he is in deep trouble. We are asking a very simple question. How is it that the census states there are 1.6 million principal private households and the Minister says there are only 1.3 million. How can that be? How is it...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very clear the Minister has got it wrong.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to shed a bit of light on this for the Minister, which may be helpful.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the census, 475,000 people are renting.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Minister is saying the cost of the grant to those living in their own home is €130 million and there are 475,000-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that not what you are saying?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The story is changing now. We were told it was-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----€130 million based on 1.3 million-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in principal private residences. That is what the Minister said and those two figures tally; €100 for those 1.3 million principal private residences. In addition, there are 475,000 people renting.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am afraid the Minister referred to people living in their own homes.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a major gap in the Minister's figures.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, there is a major gap. How do you explain the gap of 700,000?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would make sense that approximately 475,000 people are renting and others are multiple properties or second homes which are not empty, and this would bring the figures up to approximately 2 million.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Otherwise it looks as if we are staring at an extra liability of €47 million.