Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail)

He spent over 20 hours debating the Water Services (Amendment) Bill with us yet he announced the fee reduction at a public meeting in a rural constituency instead of here. He has not dealt with the real issues. His announcement was a smokescreen that has backfired badly on the Government because rural Ireland is up in arms today. The real issue of the septic tank Bill is standards and the cost of meeting them and he has done nothing to address it. He tried a smokescreen but it backfired on him. Let us see what the standards will be when they are published in a fortnight. I guarantee that rural Ireland will not take any more bluff and bluster from him.