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Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am not hiding from anyone.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Am I in possession? On a point of order-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: We never discussed this Bill.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that and am not blaming the Acting Chairman, who is fair.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I blame the Minister, Deputy Hogan, for applying the guillotine. We were misled by the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn. In fairness, the Taoiseach told Deputy Ó Cuív and me in the corridor yesterday that he would try to have the record corrected, as it was patently untrue that fines would be levied by 2 or 3 February. What we must do by that date is enter a defence to a...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Of course it has relevance.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Am I?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: You can, by all means, if you want to be personal, but I am stating facts.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Why did you not sue the newspapers that printed this information and the radio station that broadcasted it?

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I will go down any road I have to, to get-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am referring to it.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: He will not.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I have tabled 32 amendments to the Bill. Deputy Tom Hayes has been a Member for 17 years and has hardly tabled an amendment to any Bill. If he did table any, I did not see them.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am referring to it. It relates to the kernel of the situation, namely, the standards applied to septic tanks. On Committee Stage on 18 December, Deputy Collins tabled a motion and I commend him for doing so. Discussing seven amendments took a long time. Today's debate would not be so long had there been fair play on Committee Stage as was supposed to have been the case. The Minister...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Acting Chairman is the committee's Chairman.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Last week. I will address that issue as well, but I am referring to before Christmas.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No. There was plenty of time because the Government plucked out nine or ten of my amendments last week and ruled them out of order as being a cost to the Exchequer. That was really stretching-----

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Jan 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I will. Standards are the kernel of the issue. We supported Deputy Collins's motion - unfortunately, we were voted down 7:3 in every vote last week - to invite the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, the County and City Managers Association, CAMA, the Irish Rural Dwellers Association, the county engineers association, the architects of Ireland association, An Taisce, the Irish Farmers...