David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----indicated that there was a cut of €5.6 million in homeless services and a cut of €3.2 million in housing adaptation grants. It was for that reason the members of the city council had to behave in the very honourable and correct way outlined by Senator Hayden.

I was also horrified to learn of the tragic death of Mr. O’Gorman. I had never heard of him and never met him. He seems to have been a decent man but nobody deserves that kind of end. I heard about it through the international media while I was abroad.

I support my colleagues who have asked for a debate on the Water Services (No. 2) Bill. A number of us raised the exemption of Irish Water from freedom of information legislation. In the newspapers this morning one can see the consultants are all the same old suspects. Half of them are the ones who got us into the financial mess. They gave bad advice. What on earth are we doing? We are still wasting money all over the place. Twice the going rate was paid to move a cargo company in connection with the incinerator at Poolbeg. We are wasting money all over the place and the individual does not matter a damn. I was lucky enough to win a few bob, thanks to Rupert Murdoch who had to cough up for libelling me, and I shoved it into the post office prizebonds. I took it to the post office with my passport-----