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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.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: By the way, it measures the amount of water in the pipes going into the area, rather than the amount of water between the meter and the household. It is more effective. A much smaller number of meters is needed. It is much cheaper. Did the Economic Management Council discuss things like that? Can the Taoiseach confirm that Siemens offered to do the whole thing much more cheaply? I...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the last Economic Management Council meeting took place. [36518/14]

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is something completely shambolic and surreal about holding a confidence vote in this Government in the Dáil when everybody knows the real confidence vote will take place on the streets tomorrow when, at 1 p.m. at Merrion Square, tens of thousands of people will assemble in the real people's parliament. They will cast a decisive vote of no confidence in this Government.

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will vote against the injustice of the water charges and the Government's failure to listen to what the people have said on that issue. They will vote against the equally cruel, unjust and regressive universal social charge and home taxes. They will vote against the cruelty of leaving people needing vital operations on waiting lists for over a year. They will vote against the fact...