David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In the debate on section 16 I attempted to raise issues relating to the water charges plan and was asked to wait until I could raise the issues in the context of these amendments. I sought clarification from the Minister of State on the amount of money that would potentially be raised through water charges and, while he outlined figures that were helpful to us, I am still unclear as to how much will be collected in water charges and how that will influence the water charges plan. He referred to a figure of €1.2 billion. He should correct me if I am wrong, but I understand from what he said that €200 million will come from commercial water charges. I assume the subvention from the Government is a capital investment of either €200 million or €250 million.