Sure ye are all the one.

Recently, we had a meeting in County Kerry regarding the River Cashen. I want to explain why the meeting was held. It was held because of the proposed cessation of the national arterial drainage programme, the programme that engages the OPW to maintain waterways and sluice gates and prevent land from flooding. If we do what we want to do with the River Cashen, thousands of acres of fertile and useful farmland will become flooded. There is also the matter of 650 houses that would be affected. The Government is not t…

A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

-----there is no way that a Minister of State can stand up inside here and use information that they would have got-----

No, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I have to defend my colleague-----

-----because you cannot have a situation where a person would use private information-----

But I have to-----

The Minister of State cannot use that private information.

The Minister of State has behaved recklessly.

No, this is not good enough

Quite simply, the reason it is not good enough is because a Government Minister spoke here-----

The person who was out order was a Government Minister who behaved recklessly by using private information on the record of the Dáil. It is absolutely quite disgraceful what she has done.

The Minister of State is a disgrace and she should come in here and apologise to Deputy Michael Collins for what she has done here today.

She used private information and she disclosed private information on the floor of the House.

The Minister of State should apologise.

The information was not available. It was leaked only last week.

There is no Dáil sitting next week.

He is a great Taoiseach: put it off until next week, when there will be no Dáil sitting.

During next year's local, European and general elections, the public will have the same interest in Fine Gael as they would have in contracting the bubonic plague. Why? It is because they will not trust it. When I and my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group continually raise the fact that it is looking at reducing the national herd, the Taoiseach denies that. I want to thank Ciaran Moran and the people in the Irish Independent and Farming Independent for their FOI request. A dossier was released containing pro…

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this very important matter. In 2010 the European Court of Human Rights held in McFarlane v . Ireland that the State was in breach of Articles 6 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights as there was no effective remedy for a breach of the constitutional right to reasonable expedition. Article 6 guarantees that hearings must be provided "within a reasonable time", and Article 13 provides for the right to an effective remedy. This Bill provides for the appointment…