No. We received the latest iteration of the Government's proposals for the week at approximately 3.15 p.m. I believe in parliamentary democracy and that all Members should do everything possible to uphold the concept of parliamentary democracy and proper, ordered, regulated debate in Parliament.

I decry what happened last Thursday, when a vote of the Parliament was defied. It is the first time I have ever witnessed that since I came to the House in 1989. It strikes a dagger into the heart of what parliamentary democracy is all about and sets a precedent we should not want repeated. Equally, the Government should respect the Parliament. This proposal and the remaining proposals before us do not respect the House and the concept of orderly, regulated debate. In essence, because of the debate on water, Private Members' business has been put back to Thursday, there is no Order of Business on Wednesday or Thursday and there is no Topical Issue debate or Question Time on Thursday. It was also proposed that Leaders' Questions not take place on Thursday, until our Whip contacted the Government Whip this morning.

That is completely incorrect.

When the schedule was published on Friday, no Leaders' Questions was scheduled for Thursday. Our Whip, on behalf of our party, protested strongly. This is undermining the Parliament and the Dáil, and confidence in and respect for the House. There is no compelling urgency about this issue. There is no reason the debate on water cannot take place this week and next week.

It is almost the anniversary of the guillotining of the Water Services Bill 2013. Has the Government learned anything? It should stop trying to ram things through the House because it might be convenient to do so. The Taoiseach is undermining respect for the Dáil, and I genuinely think we need to cop on and keep calm about debates. Legitimate demonstrations and protests are part of democracy. There should also be space for people to debate the water issue, as well as other issues, this week. Members may have wanted to raise Topical Issues, legislation on the Order of Business, various questions and so forth. This is shambolic in terms of how the business of the Dáil is being dealt with.

There should be a regular order, which no Government should be able to cast aside unless there is a real emergency. If there is an Order of Business on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, we should continue to have it. If it is agreed by the House to have Topical Issue debates on a regular basis, we should continue to have them. We should continue to have Question Time and Leaders' Questions. We can organise debates around that. There is no compelling urgency that I can see to finish the debate on water on Thursday at 8 p.m. The next big demonstration is on 10 December. I ask the Government to go back to the drawing board, allow normality to return and have the order of the House as it was.

Usually, we get a sense on a Wednesday of the draft Order of Business for the following week. We did not get the information this week. We received the first draft schedule including a debate on water charges on Friday. We then received an entirely different Order of Business today, and there was no consultation with the Sinn Féin Whip on that issue. In the schedule we received on Friday, there was no Leaders' Questions planned for this Thursday. We protested about that. There is now no Order of Business or oral questions tomorrow or Thursday. There is no Topical Issue debate.

I defer to the Taoiseach in case I am wrong, but the Order of Business he read out is not the one I have. I tried to keep note of what he said. He introduced No. 33, the Social Welfare Bill, which is not on the schedule of business I have for tomorrow. I have accused the Government of ignoring the Oireachtas and Dáil. It has majored on the need for political reform, but there has been no consultation with the Sinn Féin Whip, and an Order of Business that is entirely different from the schedule we were given on Friday has been produced for the next few days. Can we get an explanation for that? If there is one, I am only too happy to listen to it.