Listening to the debates over the weekend, two words struck me: "hypocrisy" and "cover-up". On the hypocrisy of the leader of Sinn Féin, Deputy Gerry Adams, it took the courage of a young woman, Mairía Cahill, who had been violated to finally get an admission from him that there was the practice of having kangaroo courts within the Republican movement, which was a second abuse, on top of the horrendous violation of a young woman. I was the Senator who approached Senator David Cullinane to ask if he, as a Member of this House, and other Sinn Féin Members would be condemning this practice. Instead we heard him say that if there was any proof, it should be shown to him. Where are we going? Are we growing new, little versions of Gerry Adams in this House?

Does the Senator have a question for the Deputy Leader?

What I am looking for is less hypocrisy and more truth.

I was also struck by the hypocrisy of the Government and members of the Government parties in the cover-up about Irish Water. Let us call a spade a spade. Irish Water is not perfect, but Members of the House on the Government side and Government Members in the Dáil put Irish Water in place. The legislation was approved in this House, despite the objections of many on this side. I did not vote it because I did not know what the cost would be; I saw it as a second form of tax and we did not know for what the first billion we would pay in taxes would be used, while we received no answers on the question of bonuses. I received an answer from Irish Water in March this year, that X% of salaries was being held back and that only if staff performed would they receive a bonus. Now the Government is reeling it out as if it was a bonus on top of a salary. We have had nothing but hypocrisy and a cover-up. One million people are not wrong and they are right not to sign until we have received the truth, have accuracy and fairness. I absolutely support Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell's call to have the senior Minister in the House to discuss Irish Water.

The Senator is way over time.

We must have fairness on the issue.