Results 641-660 of 1,070,496 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Brian Leddin OR speaker:Neale Richmond OR speaker:Verona Murphy OR speaker:Pearse Doherty)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: -----with its slice of the Apple money. Would that be right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: All I can say is, "Thank God for the European Court of Justice."
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: Now that we have the Commissionership, that is even more important.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I hope the Deputy was not one of the those who were in favour of handing the money back and who are now saying where we should spend it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Verona Murphy: No. On a serious note, I can see there are challenges.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: What is the cost of new connections? This is an issue that comes up. Whether it is for one-off housing or housing schemes, the cost of connections has gone up substantially. How is that calculated? Is there a fixed amount? For example, if Joe Bloggs is building a house and needs a water connection, is there a set charge and then so much per metre charged for piping? How is that calculated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is that 10 m from the site or from the actual building?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is 10 m from the boundary of the site. The person building the house is responsible for the connections inside the site out to the boundary. From the boundary out, if it is 10 m, how much does it cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: A lot of these would not need wastewater because in rural areas-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: -----they have stand-alone septic tanks. What happens where the distance is more than 10 m?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: For the water supply first.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: What if there is a road opening? Is there licensing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: It costs €2,300 for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is for supply only, just to clarify that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Some of the costs are coming in extremely high at short distances. Maybe Uisce Éireann has a framework agreement with contractors. There were discussions in this complex yesterday around contractors and the pricing of jobs. It is widely acknowledged that it is a great time to be a contractor, particularly where they are contracting to public bodies. In this case, the cost comes back...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: They are putting a saddle on the sewer and putting the pipe up to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: They may just be putting a saddle onto it for an individual connection.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The developers complain - we hear this - that they are waiting too long. There was a recent outage in Mountmellick and no notice was given. I am sure the witnesses' ears were red because of this when local public representatives got onto them. People in the area were not given any notice of a substantial outage for a substantial period of time. What happened there? Where did the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: It was an unfortunate sequence of events. Local communication was again a problem. I will not go back over it. Ms Attridge will have heard it already from Laois county councillors. There was a substantial communication problem and a lack of communications. I am saying that so that Uisce Éireann will address it. In terms of developments in counties, Wexford has been mentioned....
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I understand and I know that the capacity of receiving waters - in other words, where the sewage goes into whatever stream or river - always has to be factored in and that sometimes restricts it. Can I make a suggestion in the case of the various counties? Mr. Laffey mentioned the regional assemblies. I know they have a role in setting the overall national planning framework and all of...