I also welcome the Moroccan ambassador. As I cannot see any of the ambassadors as they are sitting behind me, I am depending on Members on the other side of the House to inform me.

Senator Darragh O'Brien raised the question of Irish Water which was also raised by quite a number of other Members and proposed an amendment to the Order of Business, as Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell did yesterday, that the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, come to the House.

I am withdrawing the amendment.

My office has been in contact with the Minister's office on several occasions in the past few weeks to ask him to come to the House and he has acceded to that request and agreed to come on 5 November. The House is not due to sit next week. If it wishes to proceed and vote on the issue, we will see how that pans out, but the Minister has agreed to come on 5 November.

A lot of water will flow under the bridge before then.

On Irish Water, certainly mistakes have been made, as the Minister has acknowledged. However, what were we to do? Should we just have adopted the Fianna Fáil policy of having a €400 flat charge for the past two years, ignored everybody else and imposed it?

It has been Fine Gael policy since 2009. It has been in charge for three and a half years.

That is not what we are trying to do. We are trying to fix the problem and make up for the errors made.

Fine Gael has been in government for three and a half years.

Order, please. The Leader to continue, without interruption.

When the country was awash with money-----

It is the Government's policy.

-----Fianna Fáil refused to deal with the problem-----

It set it up as a private entity, separate from-----

Order, please.

It is the Government's problem. It made the mess. It should clean it up and stop blaming everyone else. That does not wash anymore.

Please, Senator. The Leader to continue, without interruption.

I know that Senator Darragh O'Brien does not like to be reminded of the facts, but Fianna Fáil would not deal with the matter.

Fine Gael has been in government for three and a half years and is still not used to it.

Will the Senator, please, allow the Leader to give his response?

The Government has to take responsibility.

Will the Senator, please, allow the Leader to respond to the questions raised on the floor of the House?

I tried to answer the Senator, but he shouted me down.

I did not get an answer.

We will accept it for what it is. The Senator does not want to hear the facts.

They are not the facts.