Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish my colleagues and friends in the House a happy new year. This has not been a nice new year for everybody. I was very saddened by a call I received last Sunday with regard to the horrific death of Tom O'Gorman. He was a very fine thinker and researcher and someone I had got to know recently. I offer my sympathies to his family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

Yesterday I spent four and three quarter hours at a committee meeting discussing Irish Water and I was shocked by what I heard. I learned there is absolutely no respect for Members of the Dáil or Seanad. Uisce Éireann made it very clear to us and documented that every decision and cent was signed off by the Department but when people tabled questions-----