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Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: We are all hear to listen.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: What about my man in Limerick?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: That is a good question. If we had proper clarity on these questions each time, we would be right. It is not that I was not listening but I did not hear the answer the Minister gave to Deputy Stanley. He referred to going back to 1965 and before that. I am discussing the man in Limerick whose name I have before me. Deputy Collins will check it out for me anyway. This man received a...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: One is in Waterford and one is in my area. I might get Deputy Coffey to give me a hand with it because we share that territory, provided the Minister does not take him into Kilkenny. This is an important part of the legislation. I will press the amendment because it matters if one gets a certificate. Deputy Wallace asked a pertinent point. What happens when this is all finished 20 years...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It is a quango.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of information, as the Minister has introduced this topic, in south Tipperary alone, data have been provided through the county council and through statistics to the effect that 85 people had no system at all. This information must have come from the census. Consequently, the Data Protection Act can be used if one wishes to so do. Does the Minister know where this information...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Totally?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: That is more of it.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Of order.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true. It might do.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Such proposals never came before us in the-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I never had sight of such proposals.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: There was no Bill and there were no proposals.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The IMF should have been brought in the year before.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: It is disingenuous to suggest that this Bill was considered by the previous Government, which was led by Fianna Fáil. If it was put before that Government, I did not have sight of it.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I monitored matters relating to that Government very carefully and anything to do with the Green Party I monitored extra carefully. I have no difficulty taking the word of Deputy Ó Cuív, who was a Minister in the previous Government, in respect of this matter. The Deputy is a man of impeccable standards. It is possible that the former Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: We do not know how long the Minister will be in office. We do not even know if we will all be around tomorrow. The Minister is aware of the position. His immediate predecessor was not long in the job and he was obliged to leave office for a particular reason. Things could change very quickly.