I have questions on two tranches of legislation.

First, given the miraculous appearance and disappearance of deadlines around water charges, a phenomenon that is now nearly akin to the moving statues, could we get some clarity from the Taoiseach as to when the new water services Bill will be published and when it will be debated? Can we get an absolute commitment that it will not be rammed through, guillotined, or decided in an overly short or contracted debate, rather that there would be adequate time for us to look at the legislation, to debate it and to scrutinise it, as it should be? Maybe he could give us some indication, because there is no clarity to my mind as to exactly what is going to be in this piece of legislation.

My second question is on the aftercare Bill, the draft heads of which were discussed last year. This Bill relates to young people who are in State care and are then released from State care and have nothing. Many of them have no supports and many find a direct route into homelessness and drug and alcohol problems, and we find them on our streets. Could the Taoiseach tell us when the aftercare Bill will come to this House?

The aftercare Bill, the child care Bill is listed for this session. Work is already under way on drafting that. On the water Bill, as the Deputy is aware, very few Bills were actually guillotined last year and there is no intention of guillotining any Bill. I think the number was only three for the entire year of 2014. There is no intention of guillotining Bills, or as the Deputy says, ramming them through in an overly short period. The Minister has not brought the heads of the Bill to Government yet, but I expect he will do so in the next couple of weeks.

Can the Taoiseach tell us what the water legislation will encompass? All we have so far are promises by Ministers that some legislation will, abhorrently, provide sanctions for those who cannot afford to pay the water charges or those who will never be reconciled to this new austerity tax. This country's landlords have more power over tenants than virtually any other country in the European Union.

Do not stray away on me.

Is the Taoiseach really planning to put tenants in an even more vulnerable position by giving landlords the power to raid their deposits to pay Irish Water? Has the Taoiseach forgotten the lessons of his native county and how the people of Mayo hated and rejected Captain Boycott-----

Yes.

-----because of his form of landlordism? When exactly will this piece of legislation come forward if the Taoiseach will persist with it?

As Deputy Higgins is aware, in Lough Mask House, Captain Boycott brought down the forces of an occupying State to deal with the issues of corn and the collection thereof. It is a very different process than what is involved here.

Sounds like the troika.

The troika, yes. Christine Lagarde.

A couple of minutes ago, the Deputy's colleague was calling for the abolition of Irish Water and of water charges. Now he is asking me when the Bill is going to come before the House and what it will contain. I said to Deputy Boyd Barrett that it will be along in due course in the next few weeks and the Minister will outline for the House exactly what it will contain.

We need to know when to organise the protest.

I hope that in the meantime many more people will register and agree to make their contribution of €1.15 per week and €3 for week, as a contribution to developing our country and for citizens who have no access to clean water, who must endure inferior pipework-----

The Taoiseach will rue the day.

-----and get up every morning and boil the water for the next few years. It is not satisfactory.

The Taoiseach should just give us the heads and the date as soon as he can. We have to make up the posters.

In Dingle they know that very well.

One would nearly fit them into a phonebox now.