Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We see the benefit for people in group water schemes and people with wells. I come from an area where my father in his family home had to sink his own well and my late uncle had to sink his own well. They paid for the cost of running that well. Deputy Ó Cuív talks about representing people. He represents people who are part of a group water scheme who have been paying for water for years. We need to ensure that all of us play our part.

Some of the rhetoric in the House this afternoon, by Deputy Coppinger in particular, is not helpful to the discourse. She is effectively sowing the seeds for the problems we saw last night. I have not heard her condemn the treatment of Members of this House or members of An Garda Síochána, or the way in which people were stopped from going about their daily business outside the gates of Leinster House. I am not opposed to anyone's right to protest. I have been on protests, part of action marches and involved with different sporting, civic and charitable organisations trying to achieve an end.

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