Results 19,201-19,220 of 28,255 for speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: How will that work?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We did not propose any of those measures.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I will revert to the subject that will decide many things in people's lives.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: First, if memory serves, the legal advice was that the Government would be obliged to comply with the water framework directive of 2007 for the proposal to be immune from another attack by the European Court of Justice.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Please allow me to finish. No decisions had been made on any other proposals and if the Minister doubts my ability to effect change at the Cabinet table, he should ask his officials about the refreshed national spatial strategy that went to the Cabinet-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That is because it had not reverted to the Cabinet.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: As the Minister is aware, a grant would have been included in the heads of the Bill. The previous Government had discussed this issue and my acceptance of the Bill would have been contingent on the inclusion of such a grant. If the Minister doubts my ability in this regard, he should ask his officials.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I will talk about the Minister for one minute.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: I presume I will-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The answer is that according to section 70C of the principal Act as proposed in the Bill, whether one is inspected, one must comply with the standards.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: If one does not, under section 70C(2), "A person who contravenes paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (1) commits an offence." In other words, regardless of whether one is inspected, anyone in the country who does not comply with the standards set in the Bill will be committing an offence. Consequently, the point about the inspection behind which the Minister is hiding is a red herring.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: Second, the bottom line of the Bill is simple. Members are unable to find out from the Minister what the standards will be. He makes vague comments about agreements with the European Union, NGOs and so on. Since the beginning of this month I have submitted freedom of information requests to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government seeking details of all discussions...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: What is needed is simple, but it should not be done on a means-tested basis because this pertains to citizenship. I must compliment Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan on his contribution in this regard. As a townie myself, I have made the point to the Minister that when one lives in a town, the facilities are upgraded without a means test. Moreover, the waste is taken away and maintenance...
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The meetings in Connemara were, with one exception, called by community groups.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister's colleague, Deputy Kyne, attended those meetings and was not able to refute the reasonable points being made because he knew they were true.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is asking us questions.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: We never-----
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
Éamon Ó Cuív: That document has nothing to do with me.