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- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: In most European countries the water utility companies are similar to Irish Water.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: Yes. I know the Deputy prefers to go to Denver when he needs back-up on this sort of issue.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: The reality is that water utilities across Europe are similar to Irish Water. Sinn Féin should have greater regard for the people who elected them to this House-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: -----because if the people decide they want to privatise Irish Water they might well elect a radically different Government or Members of Parliament.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: Deputy Ó Snodaigh in calling for a referendum to be held on the ownership of roads, schools and everything else is showing a lack of trust on behalf of the people who elected him. The Deputy knows this is nonsensical.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: It is.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: We have had an endless debate on this issue. I have read all about how Northern Ireland Water was established. What we are doing is not that different. Sinn Féin is in Government in Northern Ireland where water meters are being installed and bonus payments are being paid to executives.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: There is little difference, yet Sinn Féin is marching people up the hill and down again and saying that it is going to do something radically different. Sinn Féin has been in Government in Northern Ireland for seven years yet it has done nothing that is radically different up there in regard to water.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: Sinn Féin is biding its time in that regard. On the household charge in Northern Ireland-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: I have the floor but I am being continually interrupted.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: In regard to the household charge in Northern Ireland, £160 per annum of that goes to meet water service provision. A further £200 million of the Westminster grant also goes towards water services. That same £200 million will probably form part of the budget deficit if things do not get sorted out up there. Perhaps water charges are on the way.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: It is clear that-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: I am doing my best but Deputy Ó Snodaigh insists on speaking over me. The document published by Northern Ireland Water makes clear that no domestic charges will be introduced in 2014 or 2015. It is not say they will not be introduced. That is the reality. Perhaps it is coincidental that the elections in the North will take place at the same time as the general election here.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: Perhaps Sinn Féin does not have to discuss the issue until such time comes.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: The reality is that there is not much difference between what was done in the North and what we are doing. When one makes the comparison between Northern Ireland Water and Irish Water much of the debate here has been phony and misleading.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: As the time permitted for this debate has expired-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: Sorry; as the time permitted for this debate has expired, I am required to put the following question in accordance with an Order of the Dáil on Tuesday, 16 December 2014: "That section 14 is hereby agreed to in Committee."
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: There are to be no interruptions. The Deputy should address his remarks to the amendment.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: Over the course of the past two or three days or even the past two or three two weeks since we have been discussing the funding of Irish Water it has become clear that Irish Water is similar in structure and governance to the way water companies throughout Europe are structured. It is becoming clear from this debate that we are not far off the structure of Northern Ireland Water. I am keen...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Dec 2014)
Liam Twomey: I will finish on this point. I have sat through the debate and taken a keen interest in it. Perhaps I was not around when the Commission for Energy Regulation report was discussed on Committee Stage. However, it seems we have been led up the hill and back down again by some Members of the Opposition given that in other jurisdictions, especially one where a particular political party...