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- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----have to pay for it again.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: What sort of victory is that?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It means that people who get up in the morning, who work hard and pay their taxes not only have to pay for their own water, but also have to pay it for the people living next door to them who waste it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: That is not a victory. That is a bad policy. It is bad for the environment-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: ----- and it is unfair on working people.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It is most likely illegal and contrary to European law.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I reiterate that the report has yet to be signed off on and yet to be published. When it is signed off on and published, it will be debated in this House. It will be sent to the Attorney General, the constitutional officer and the Government's legal adviser, to give all of us in the Oireachtas sound legal advice-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----as to whether what is proposed is contrary or not to European law. The confidence and supply agreement states that we will facilitate legislation but it has always been understood, and indeed accepted by the major party opposite, that it does not require a Minister to bring forward legislation which that Minister knows to be contrary to European law and where he or she has been...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: I congratulate Deputy Paul Murphy on one enormous success, though not on the role he has played in the campaign against water charges. I congratulate him on the role he has played in reducing Fianna Fáil to what it is now. The party of Lemass, which was once proud to stand up for things and would do the right things by the Irish people, now determines its policy on water solely out of...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The proposal to bring forward water charges in this State was first made in 2010.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The proposal-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Is it not remarkable how one is shouted down the minute one says something people do not want to hear?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: As we all know, the truth hurts and this one hurts really bad. The original proposal to introduce metering and water charges in this State was made in 2010 in an agreement between Fianna Fáil and the Green Party.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It was not imposed on us by the troika and was not about austerity. It was Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, in government, agreeing to bring forward a policy because it was the right one by the Irish people. Why have they changed their position now?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: It is not because the facts have changed or European law has changed, but because they are terrified of Sinn Féin and terrified of the far left. It is a sad thing to see a party such as Fianna Fáil reduced to the position it is in now.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: The real tragedy here is the extent to which personality politics and party politics-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----has overtaken what we all know deep down to be the right decision for the Irish people, and the correct decision long-term. When a previous Government - not lead by Fine Gael - signed up to the European water framework directive, they did not just sign up to some silly European law. They signed up to principles which make sense. Metering makes sense, because that is how leaks are...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: -----ensures that people do not have to pay for other people's leaks.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: There will be other Dáileanna after this, and sooner or later some Dáil will make the correct decision by the Irish people, will do the right thing for the long term, and that will not reflect very well on the type of personality politics and party politics that we have seen displayed in this House in recent months. I want to ask one simple question and I would like an answer to...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Apr 2017)
Leo Varadkar: Ba mhaith liom freisin fáilte a chur roimh na daoine ó Chontae Dhún na nGall. I hope they all enjoy their visit to the House today.