Water Services Bill 2014
Public bill · Government · Presented
Sets caps on household water charges from 2015 to 2018, provides an annual water-conservation grant, and prevents Irish Water from cutting off or reducing domestic supplies over unpaid bills. It also protects Irish Water’s public ownership through a possible referendum requirement, creates customer oversight and complaints processes, removes its power to request PPS numbers, and makes related administrative changes.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to make provision, should the Government with the consent of both Houses of the Oireachtas propose to alienate the shareholding in Irish Water of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the Minister for Finance, for the holding of a Plebiscite of the People to decide upon the proposal; to provide for the maximum level of charges that Irish Water may impose on a person in respect of the provision of water services to a dwelling, for the payment of a grant to householders for the conservation of water, for the establishment by the Commission for Energy Regulation of a public water forum, for the provision by the Commission for Energy Regulation of dispute resolution procedures for customers of Irish Water and for matters relating to the superannuation of persons employed with Irish Water before those persons entered into service with Irish Water; to rescind the power of Irish Water to require the personal public service number of its customers; to increase the membership of the Board of Ervia; to amend the Water Services Acts 2007 to 2013, the First Schedule to the Gas Act 1976, Schedule 4 to the Valuation Act 2001 and Schedule 5 to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; and to provide for connected matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
- Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Primary
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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) Seanad
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- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) Seanad
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage Dáil
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- Water Services Bill 2014: Order for Second Stage Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage Dáil
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil