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Seanad: Local Government Rates and Other Matters Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Jul 2019): Kevin Humphreys: ...arguments with regard to improved services and so forth and I accept some of those, but if we expect people to pay property tax to provide money that will be spent in the local area we must compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. The maintenance of national primary routes was taken out of the central authority and put under the local authority without any compensation. In...
Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2018): Kevin Humphreys: I have a certain amount of concern. What happened in the case of the proposed Apple data centre in the west of Ireland was totally wrong. It probably robbed key infrastructure and jobs from that area. I am conscious that we could have a knee-jerk reaction to what happened in that case. These data centres are huge consumers of energy. We have problems regarding climate change. Most data...

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