Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

No, it is not agreed. This is the second or third occasion recently on which time has been extended in the Dáil to debate issues. I have no problem with that but, although I have asked the Taoiseach and Ministers on those occasions when time would be made available for an emergency debate on the debacle that is Irish Water and all to do with it, especially the attempt to austerity-tax more people, I have not been facilitated. Leaders' Questions is not a substitute, nor is Private Members' time.

We now face a spectacle of Government Deputies and Ministers complaining about the Frankenstein's monster they created-----

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