I am going to say this, even though they might try to shout me down. This is the same Labour-----

The Acting Chairman will have to stop the clock because I do not want to eat into my colleagues’ time. I want to make the point.

The point is that this is the Labour who wanted to put a water tax on every person in this country.

This is the Labour who did away with the death grant.

Is the clock stopped?

The time has to be given back because this colleague of mine does not have the decorum and the manners to shut up.

Are you going to shut up?

Are you going to shut up?

I am talking to the motion.

The people who are moving the motion are the people who wanted to put a water tax on everybody in this country and said they would turn off the water if they did not pay the tax.

These are the people who did away with the death grant; they attacked every woman in this country; they did away with their pensions; and they hurt them beyond belief.

I want to compliment the old Labour we had in County Kerry, when we had people like Breeda Moynihan-Cronin and the Spring family, good people who were involved in Labour, not the people who took power like them and who did what they did.

You are a scandal, shouting down a colleague.

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