Useless.

In ten years' time.

There is nothing wrong with the Déise either.

Statements.

The town of Clonmel in south Tipperary has been devastated this summer by water outages. It was one of the wettest summers in history and people were aghast to find that for 40 different days, there were outages at the Talbot Hotel in Clonmel and large parts of the town of Clonmel. People just cannot believe that Irish Water is treating its customers like this, both domestic and business people in the town, who have suffered damage to their equipment and everything else by these outages for that length of time. We …

The Minister did not call to see the hotel. He was taking photographs.

I would say you were.

On behalf of my group, I must say it is a shame that neither the Taoiseach nor the Tánaiste could turn up today after the recess. It tells a lot about what they think of this House. I want to raise a serious issue relating to the Garda, on which we want a debate in this House. Almost 99% of Garda Representative Association members - it was almost unanimous - voted no confidence in the Garda Commissioner, yet he is still stubbornly going ahead with the extra roster, supported by the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEn…

I am glad the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman is here. Childcare is in crisis and childcare providers across the country have been left with no choice but to take industrial action, go on strike and close their doors next week because negotiations seem to have broken down completely with the Minister. I am glad he is here so he can answer. There is this new model of core funding, but one size does not fit all and that is quite evident but the Government has not dealt with it. Childcare providers will close their doors ne…

Limerick people voted for this in good faith in 2019. Waterford and Cork did not. I heard a Deputy for Waterford say they were going to watch what happens in Limerick. That is a poor enough way to have your aspirations delivered or achieved. There is a total imbalance of power. The power in this country rests here in central government. I am good friends with Deputy O'Callaghan, who said a minute ago that we can ask questions of the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste here. However, neither of them bothered to turn up today…

Hear, hear.

The Deputy is in Fine Gael. Why did he back them?

Fair is fair.

Why did the Deputy not?

Why did you not-----

Why-----

They must have forgotten about our guests.

In disgust.

I, too, can see that people are being robbed blind with tax, but the banks are getting away with murder. They are in bed with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party. I cannot believe that after the bailout and the misery and persecution they put on people, the banks are back now doing the very same again. What is the Government doing? As I said previously to the Ceann Comhairle, the Government is rubbing a sow to a fat pig's you-know-what. That is what it is. I am disappointed. I have criticised other Ministers…

They can see you.