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Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the positive indications that the Minister and Minister of State are giving and the fact that the Minister met the regional managers and CWOs. That is a positive development and I hope it pans out. I genuinely welcome the intervention of the Minister of State around the particular case I raised. I am seeking as strong an assurance as I can get on this issue. The rent cap for...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin Members for sharing their time with us and raising this issue. I commend the Government for not opposing the motion. It is absolutely vital to recognise the legitimacy of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and statehood. It is a sign of the advancement of the Palestinian struggle that recognition is growing across the world. I would not have become...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We know where he is.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach also investigate the possibility of installing the district meters to which I refer?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the Taoiseach's role in it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am not saying that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The State should have paid for that, too.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They should not have to.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Economic Management Council has a function, I presume it is to try to set out the economic priorities of this Government, to look at value for money when it comes to big projects and to decide the broad parameters of raising revenue and collecting taxes. I expect that the four senior members of the Government - the Taoiseach and the other three Ministers - come up with recommendations...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There will be a minimum of 50,000 people there. It will be probably be a hell of a lot bigger than that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remind the Deputies that tomorrow is a weekday. It will be probably be a lot bigger than that. For that to happen on a weekday, after the Economic Management Council has signed off on the package I have mentioned, will be an enormous vote of no confidence in the Government and the Economic Management Council, both of which have failed to understand what the people of this country are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is true.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not ask Deputy Durkan.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach discussed district meters? Plumbers and people who work in the water infrastructure system tell me-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not ask you, Bernard.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People who have worked in the water infrastructure system for decades have told me that just one district meter, rather than hundreds of meters, could cover all the households in an estate or a local area.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They can be used to determine how much water is going into that locality.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy does not want to hear this because it drives a coach and horses through the Government's argument.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will you please ask him to shut up, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They know what the average usage for a household is. If it exceeds the amount of water going into a particular area, they can work it out.