Several months ago 1 million people watched an RTE programme which showed women being assaulted in the Áras Attracta nursing home, yet no arrests have been made.

I will switch off the Deputy's microphone if she does not ask a supplementary question.

That is a supplementary question.

What was the question?

Why have no arrests been made in the Áras Attracta case?

The Deputy should ask a supplementary question. I will not ask a third time.

I am being continually interrupted.

The Deputy is over time.

I am explaining my question.

The Deputy is being interrupted.

I am trying to maintain order.

If the Ceann Comhairle stops interrupting me, I will ask my question.

I will interrupt Deputies when they go over time. The Deputy should ask a supplementary question.

I can pass on to the Taoiseach the letter I received from a garda. The reason he wrote to me-----

That is not a question.

The Taoiseach asked if I knew the garda and the reason he had written to me.

I do not care what the Taoiseach asked. The Deputy has one minute in which to ask a supplementary question and she has been speaking for exactly two minutes and 40 seconds.

I have repeatedly been interrupted.

Please ask a supplementary question.

Am I allowed to ask a question about policing and what the Taoiseach said?

Ask the question.

That is what I am doing. This is unbelievable.

The Deputy will have to learn to obey the rules like everybody else in the House. She cannot go on and on.

This is ridiculous. The previous contributions should have been timed.

The point the garda makes in his letter is that gardaí are being asked to go to civil protests in the heart of communities to act on behalf of the Government in the implementation of water charges and on behalf of companies in the installation of water meters. Many gardaí are not happy in doing this. Far from defending the Garda last week, the Taoiseach was defending Government policy and the Government's use of the Garda. Is that not the case?

The Deputy made a series of comments, as opposed to asking a question. On her remark about women being assaulted in Áras Attracta and the use of Garda resources in County Mayo, that is a serious case that is being investigated.

Why has no one been arrested?

The Deputy seems to know that nobody has been arrested. I cannot comment on that matter, as it is one for the Garda and investigations are taking place in the Health Service Executive. It should never have happened. I attended the opening of a geriatric unit in Dublin.

Those who were involved in the protest about water charges had no interest in the people in the geriatric unit. Their intention seemed to be to knock gardaí and kick them on the ground. That seemed to be the intention of those who were protesting-----

What protests is the Taoiseach talking about?

I am sure the Deputy does not support that.

What protests is the Taoiseach on about?

For that reason, I reject what she said about the gardaí operating in a political fashion here. They have a job to do that is very difficult and it is not being helped by some of the clients that I see on the streets. It might be far more in their interest if they looked around the country to see the many places that have inferior water and that have no facilities in terms of being able to do business in the way one would expect.

The Taoiseach is talking about fixing leaks for four years. They have not been fixed yet.

We cannot deal with those challenges unless we have a system of investing to fix and investing for the future. All those people could help in their own small way. A man approached me with two pints in his hands complaining about the charge. I reminded him that one pint would pay for his water as a single person for a couple of weeks.

Many rural areas do not have a Garda station.

The Taoiseach is talking about fixing leaks for four years.