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Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: That section of the Bill is terribly important. That holds the plebiscite to account. It cannot ignore the will of the people.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: You have to accept that.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am just asking you to think about that.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are supposed to be having a debate here today about a very serious-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: ----- issue of the privatisation versus public ownership of Irish Water, which I think is the nub of the problem. I believe we should pay for water. We should purify it, conserve it and supply it. As Senator Mary Ann O'Brien has said, we have gone a Wizard of Oz way around it. I believe we should pay for it, but this is the nub of the problem - having pride in our water and holding it....

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Argue that. Riddle me that.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It was not.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Sorry, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We did not have this legislation around it.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is a definition.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is the natural will of the people.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is the natural will of the people to decide.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was asking the question.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: As a Member of the Seanad, I demand that Senators do not speak to Ministers in that manner.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am surprised at the Senator.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator will not speak in that rude manner in front of me, in the same Chamber. Have some manners.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I find it very difficult to have to sit here and witness such bad mannered and linguistically vulgar behaviour. There is no necessity for it.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator will not do so because he is part of a communications process.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator will not do so.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator might show some manners.