Seanad debates
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Water Services Bill 2017: Committee and Remaining Stages
10:30 am
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
-----with group water schemes, as I have mentioned.
Clarification is still required on future funding and the form that funding or subsidy will take. We have issues over the excessive use charge. Will it be measured at the meter or will there be a straight-off fine? Will there be a first-fix-free policy on undiscovered leaks, or will such leaks incur the excessive-use charge? All these questions remain and could have been addressed had there been a more comprehensive debate and Bill, and if relevant amendments had been accepted in the Dáil. Instead, a very flawed Bill has gone through today, and that is why we opposed it. If Fianna Fáil had any backbone, it would have opposed it also.
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