Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I share Senator Keith Swanick's view on the propaganda of ISIL. I hope we will have a common cause in being able to fight ISIL and negate the damage it is causing. the threats and the killings. Yesterday we had comments on Fidel Castro and the Senator was right to mention the people who had been killed. In my response I mentioned Castro's campaign against members of the LGBT community who had been persecuted and killed. It is regrettable, but I will not get into the blame game. As I said yesterday, Castro is as controversial and complex in death as he was when he was alive. The Senator is entitled to express his views, for which I thank him.

Senator Paddy Burke raised the topical issue of the expert report on domestic water charges which was published yesterday. Like Senator Ivana Bacik, I wish the Senators who are members of the Oireachtas committee on water charges, under the chairmanship of Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh, well in their deliberations. I am not sure whether the report of the committee will be brought to the Seanad. I know that it will be brought to the Dáil. I hope it will be given to us, given that there are Members of the Seanad and the Dáil on the committee. We must examine it and, I hope, advocate that it be brought to this House.