My second question relates to the Local Government Bill 2013. The Seanad debacle, for which this Government was responsible, was a case of the people having their say.

Is there any hope that the Taoiseach and his colleagues will reconsider the Local Government Bill 2013 and give the people in towns the opportunity to decide for themselves, by means of a plebiscite, whether they want to have town councils? That is all I am asking. Let democracy work. If I am wrong and the Taoiseach is right, well and good, but we should let the people decide like they decided about the Seanad.

We will not go back over that.

The Taoiseach thought he was right on the Seanad, but he was wrong and so were his colleagues.

I call the Taoiseach.

I hope that the good lady who took ill is well and was properly looked after, and that she makes a full recovery. We have gone past the stage of what the Deputy has called for. The Bill is in the House and will proceed. As the seanfhocal used to say, "in your father's time", there were secret deals signed between him and the Government about which nobody knew anything. At least we now know, with openness and transparency, what is involved here.

I call Deputy Fitzpatrick.

If the Taoiseach thinks he can make that swipe and get away with it, we are talking about a man that had a respectable track record and did a lot of good things for a lot of people and who never misled anybody.

I never made any comment in contrary to the good man's character.

That is okay, but let us be very clear on that.

In fact, he and I were very good friends, but while we were good friends, he never divulged to me the secrets of Fatima contained in that document.

It is a good job that he delivered, because the fellows with the Taoiseach would not deliver a bag of eggs.

One marina on top of a mountain.

We are nearly out of time. I call Deputy Fitzpatrick.

When he opened the filling station in Glenbeigh, he delivered one of the finest speeches I had heard in donkey's years.