I deliberately focused on the cost of groceries because my argument is that food inflation is crippling people. The Barnardos report shows that. Social Justice Ireland has shown that more than 500,000 people in this country are living in poverty, of which 180,000 are children. I am asking the Tánaiste what he is going to do about the rising cost of food. He can go shopping in some market and buy his porridge and fruit but most people rely on Tesco, Aldi and Lidl, where food inflation is still rising and there is no…

That is the sort of country we live in – one where parents let their kids go to bed hungry – and the sort of country that they face. What is the Tánaiste going to do about it to address that problem?

I do not care where the Tánaiste was.

The Tánaiste is being very defensive. Will he answer my question? No.

I am sure that will be a great comfort to the parents of the kids who go hungry every day.

I asked about food inflation.

It has been brought to my attention that at least 11 students from Gaza are on a scholarship programme here through the Irish Council for International Students-Department of Foreign Affairs Irish Aid programme. Academics have confirmed to me that those students have been written to and told they either have go back to where they came from or go somewhere else, while students on similar scholarships from other parts of the world are allowed to stay two years after they finish their studies in the capacity of gettin…

I just asked you a question.

That is what it says on the letters they got.

Sorry-----

I apologise for my tone. I am just asking-----

-----you to do something to make sure those students remain.

I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh for bringing forward the Bill. I am getting my head around it. I received the briefing note from Coalition 2030. It gives a context for this coming before the Oireachtas and says the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action in its report on the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss recommends the establishment of a new ombudsman for future generations, with the resources of an office or future generations commission, to protect the long-term i…

I am sorry; an Tánaiste is not here.

The Minister of State will be here and will tell the Tánaiste what I have said. I am going to talk to him as if he was the Tánaiste, if that is okay.

Deputy Fleming has the position of Tánaiste for five minutes.

I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Tánaiste, Micheál Martin TD said in 2013 that the triple lock was at the core of our neutrality and described the attempt to undermine it as "an out-of-touch ideological obsession on the part of Fine Gael"; — Fianna Fáil's 2020 general election manifesto states that Ireland will "Fully maintain neutrality and the Triple Lock ... Fianna Fáil reaffirms its commitment to the retention of the triple lock of UN mandate or authorisation, Government and Dáil approval, prior to …

And Biden's behaviour is okay?

There are no inspections.

Then you should be truthful in your manifesto and say you want to get rid of the triple lock.