Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not finished. I am being interrupted. The Taoiseach, who is developing a record for his lack of candour on health, first denied that there had been any promise. This fell apart when a journalist produced a tape of him making the promise. From the day he made the promise to the day he broke it, the fiscal situation of the country had not changed – a fact confirmed by his own Ministers. The Taoiseach himself said closing the accident and emergency services was not intended to save any money. This cynical breach of faith with the people of Roscommon is still a raw issue but it is increasingly one among many.

There are thousands of families whose homes are piped with water they cannot drink yet now they are being asked to pay for that water. When they hear from a senior Fine Gael Minister that they are being "supplied with Ballygowan standard water", they are rightly angry. Families with young children are still being told that their children will be covered by a free allowance but the final figures show that a child will only have free water if they have one shower a week and go to the toilet once a day.

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