Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I remember a story the Tánaiste told me. During campaigning in the Dublin West by-election, won by Deputy Brian Lenihan, she was outside a supermarket. A lady wearing one of Senator Quinn's fur coats approached her pushing a trolley and berated her over the possibility of the introduction of water charges. It may have been implied that such charges were not completely off the agenda at the time. She gave out socks to the Tánaiste at the very thought of it. The Tánaiste looked into the trolley and found it full of bottled water for which the lady had paid a vast sum of money. It makes one wonder about these matters.