The Deputy has left no time for that.

The Minister of State is out of time.

I might benefit from some confusion as well.

I am just joking. I am not sure how I can do justice to this topic in five minutes. I welcome it. However, in a sense, we are putting the cart before the horse. At the moment, there is a committee meeting going on, or it has just finished, where the CEO and the committee are teasing out very important issues, and the Committee of Public Accounts is due to have an appearance by the CEO on 10 February. I would have thought that, rather than speaking in a vacuum today, some of the issues we highlighted would be crysta…

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Duncan Smith - to discuss the crisis in dental care for medical card holders; (2) Deputy Neale Richmond - to ask the Minister for Justice to discuss the need for body cameras for An Garda Síochána; (3) Deputy Paul Donnelly - to discuss the current issues in regard to equipment, staff and industrial action facing the Dublin fire brigade service; (4)…

I just have two and a half minutes. I will use my voice to say I am horrified at the sabre rattling, and not by Russia alone but by NATO, America and England. It is completely unacceptable. I will quote from Afri who have written to us all and pointed out, on the death of Desmond Tutu, where he "identified war and the war industry as one of the great evils of our time [and] pointing to the immoral wastage of resources which it represents as well as the extent to which it destroys people and wreaks havoc on our prec…

The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2022 - Votes 7, 8, 9 and 10.

The Minister of State is here again and there is no senior Minister. As we are discussing one of the most important and devastating reports, it is unacceptable again that she has been put in that position. I had intended to speak on what all other Deputies have spoken about in terms of waiting lists for the very good Jigsaw programme in Galway and CAMHS in Galway. I was going to refer to the mental health reform group that represents 76 member organisations on the ground and what they tell us in terms of the defici…

As we have nobody else sharing, we move on now to the Rural Independent Group and I call Deputy Collins. Each speaker has five minutes.

That concludes the first round of speakers. Deputy Matthews is sharing his time with Deputy Murnane O'Connor.

There are no other speakers, so I call on the Minister of State.

I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion concerning the leaving certificate. On Tuesday, 25 January 2022, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion concerning the cost of living. On Wednesday, 26 January 2022, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

I know that with a puff from the magic dragon the restrictions were lifted at 6 o’clock last Friday. It would be churlish of me not to recognise the sense of relief and excitement felt by many people. Equally, many people have wondered what the context of this is, with a decision made outside of the Dáil, with no discussion and with a clár oibre anseo gan Covid-19 luaite beag ná mór. I am asking for a full debate on the context of Covid-19 and on the lifting of restrictions. We are all getting phone calls from nurs…

My question is very specific. Will the Taoiseach comply with the will of this Dáil in relation to the national maternity hospital? On three different occasions, the Dáil, including the Taoiseach's Government, unanimously agreed to a motion providing that the new hospital will be a public hospital on a public site, owned and run by the State through the agency. I want the Taoiseach to commit, please, and to tell me that he is going to act in accordance with what we have asked for in three separate motions over the p…

That was not the question.

Tríd an gCathaoirleach, más é do thoil é, mar táimid ag rith as am.

Not quite.

The next speaker is Deputy Costello, who is sharing time with Deputy Alan Farrell. He is not yet in the Chamber.

I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Thomas Gould - to discuss the value for money of local authority long-term leases through the mortgage to rent scheme; (2) Deputy John Lahart - to discuss recognition of the essential role of special needs assistants, SNAs, by the Department of Education; (3) Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor - to discuss the provision of toilet facilities at Muine …