I raise the report that was published this morning on the 51 private water connections where E. coli was found. This is very serious. I realise that at this stage many houses and group schemes are on the main connection but Irish Water will have to investigate all of the connections. The report states that more than 700 connections were not assessed. This is very important because E. coli is so dangerous, particularly for younger children. A family not too far from me had to leave their home recently because of E. coli in the connection to the water system in the new house they bought. They had a private system but the entire connection was in a very bad state. I ask the Minister to call on Irish Water to investigate every connection.

I thank Senator for her brevity

I am checking the microphone because I want to make sure the Leader of the Seanad hears me this morning. I do not want any mistakes.

What did you say?

The fourth estate is running policy for Fine Gael and the Independent Alliance. Yesterday we had the headline "'Tax grab' on workers follows FG cuts pledge" and today we have "Donohoe in climbdown on loss of tax breaks as Taoiseach accused of 'clobbering workers'". Yesterday we had one headline and today we have another. Who is running the show? It is Independent News and Media and very active journalists. I compliment Senator Nash who highlighted this issue yesterday.

The fourth estate, or the fourth power, refers to the press and news media in explicit capacity of advocacy and implicit ability to frame political issues. What we have is a very astute propaganda unit in the Government, which is supposed to have been done away with by the way, and when it views these stories all of a sudden the policy mooted at the weekend with the Revenue Commissioners has been dropped until after the next general election to ensure the Taoiseach returns to power with Sinn Féin. That will be the make-up of the next Government the way it is going at the moment.

It will be Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin. It will be Senator Leyden and the Shinners.

A Sinn Féin-Fianna Fáil coalition.

What lovely-----

Ask Senator Mark Daly and Deputy Ó Cuív. We know all about that little honeymoon. The marriage did not last too long.

What lovely bedfellows they make but when we see such a somersault-----

I ask Senator Leyden to refrain from too much entertainment.

I can tell the Cathaoirleach it was not so much entertainment when the Government was going to take allowances from workers in bars and from other people.

It is thanks to Deputy Pearse Doherty.

If Deputy Pearse Doherty influenced that decision it confirms the alliance and coalition between both parties.

It confirms Fianna Fáil was asleep.

If Senator Conway-Walsh is claiming Pearse Doherty is responsible for this, I am claiming the fourth estate, and particularly the Irish Independent and its top journalists are responsible for the change in policy. All I can say is whatever the composition of the next Government it should govern and it should not come in one day and state these are its policies and what it stands for but if one does not agree with them it will change them. That is not leadership.

Fianna Fáil was asleep but it has woken up with the threat of an election in the air and good for it.

I want to talk about air pollution and climate change. A poor whale was washed up in Indonesia with 6 kg of plastic - including 25 plastic cups, 115 plastic bags and flip-flops - inside it. I do not know if there was a human attached to the flip-flops. Our air, sea and land are exposed to stuff with which they can no longer cope. We see what is happening and it is up to us to change it. I commend Deputy Thomas Pringle on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill. It is a brave step and I commend all Deputies who voted for it on Second Stage. Tomorrow, the Bill will proceed to Committee and Remaining Stages and I hope it will go through smoothly. We are not great in this country but the Bill leads the way globally in the context of fossil fuel divestment. What is proposed in the Bill will cause problems for people who burn fuel on a regular basis and who depend on it but it is a great step for us. I wanted to welcome the Bill because I will not be available for the debate tomorrow.