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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, the quote was out of context.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Abusive.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Please God.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is the issue.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: To move on to the amendments-----

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator came all the way up from the basement to tell me that.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Quinn would do it. He is pro-privatisation.

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I voted to have the Bill read but I did not vote on the Bill. I wish to point out to other Senators that if they intend to quote me they should quote me correctly. I think we should preserve our water, purify our water, supply our water and pay for our water. I have said this from the beginning. I also think it should be fair, just and affordable and it should be ours. This is very...

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

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Stop quoting me.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It has been. I was reiterating what I had said at the committee.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, I suggest the Senator would start with the banks because they have taken the front door key from half of the country.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Senator Craughwell will have great support.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I congratulate Senator van Turnhout on bringing representatives of the Health Service Executive before the Joint Committee on Health and Children in response to what occurred in the Áras Attracta facility in Swinford. Would that the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection could be so proactive, alive, urgent and relevant. I congratulate the Senator on her achievement. Two or...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, none of that would have occurred if the Government had approached the water issue correctly in the first place. Let us not talk rubbish.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State, but I do not think his officials have been listening. That was not my question. I asked a massive question about why somebody on €17,000, €18,000, €22,000, €24,000, €31,000, €33,000, €44,000 or any amount right up to €70,000 is paying 7%. That gap is too wide.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Yes. The Minister of State was not here.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: There is a major gap between €17,000 and €70,000. It is too wide. My point was that surely it should be more progressive.