Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What will Sinn Féin do when the commission reports? It will do exactly what it intends doing which is to vote against it no matter what the commission report says. Sinn Féin had a different position prior to the October 2014 by-election when the current coalition between Sinn Féin and the Socialist Party was not quite in place, when Deputy Murphy became a Member of this House. The Deputy said that one could not trust Sinn Féin on water and one could not. Sinn Féin was moving to the centre and trying to gather more votes for the coming general election. It lost the by-election, changed tack and went to the left. Now, we have high style, old style Opposition, which I find unfortunate. I have listened to Deputy Ó Broin, who I think is an intelligent young Member of this House, but he is prepared to go down the route of the same old stuff - throw mud and hope it sticks. The old expression is the more it changes, the more it stays the same. I find that unfortunate. If water will be free, it should be free for everybody. It should be free for the group schemes that are paying for water and will be paying for water after this. The State should pony up for everybody in the countryside who provides their own well, sewage and septic tanks.

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