I was stunned to hear Senator Máire Devine refer to the cash-for-ash issue in her response to my party Whip. I thought that issue, on which Sinn Féin recklessly brought down the Northern Ireland Assembly, had gone up in smoke as Sinn Féin threw up a raft of other problems.

That was about €400 million of public money.

I did not interrupt anybody.

Members should allow Senator O'Sullivan to make his point, whether they agree with him or not.

Sinn Féin has succeeded in moving the goalposts on that again. I spoke yesterday on how there is no representation as the Northern Ireland budget-----

Will the Senator put on record what he proposes to leave out?

-----is being passed by the English House of Commons in a debate with English MPs and there was not one nationalist Irish voice raised for the simple reason-----

Will Fianna Fáil take its seats in Westminster? They are absolute hypocrites, calling themselves the republican party.

I did not interrupt anyone.

I will not allow this. I am going to finish the Order of Business and that is it.

This is a stand-up comedy act.

I never interrupt anyone in this House and I am entitled to continue. I will not be bullied like people in the Sinn Féin Party are bullied.

Senator O'Sullivan should conclude.

Sinn Féin will not bully me. It can bully its own. They will not bully me. We had no Irish nationalist voice to debate the budget for Northern Ireland. What an insult to the memory of Daniel O'Connell, Parnell, Redmond, Dillon and the rest of them. It is an insult. Sinn Féin is putting its party before its country morning, noon and night.

Sinn Féin is a republican party.

It has become a political cult.

Where is the Senator's mandate?

The country must come first.

Where is the Senator's mandate?

Liam Lawlor, Ray Burke, Charlie Haughey. Will we go on?

Senator Mac Lochlainn, please.

Sinn Féin will not bully me.

Members are pushing me to the point.

Sinn Féin will not bully me. It will not bully us. They will not bully anyone.

We had all this yesterday.

I welcome the announcement ----

Fianna Fáil, the republican party.

Senator Mac Lochlainn.

Look at this. This is the bullying of Sinn Féin. It is driving its own members from the party.

I welcome the announcement of €98 million to extend the Luas green line. It is very important because it is over capacity. It is a huge investment and I have no problem with it. However, recently I alighted at the railway station in Clonmel and there is not even a toilet there. The patrons are dependent on the goodwill of shopkeepers and publicans nearby. I want to note that in the context of Senator Ray Butler's very good contribution to the House regarding what is happening in Navan and rural Ireland versus Dublin.

I will not be bullied in this House by Sinn Féin.