I am moving on to Deputy Fitzmaurice.

I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion regarding the spending of public funds by the Government. On Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 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.

We are way over time.

Deputy, we are way over time.

The question, Deputy.

No, the question has been asked now. We will have to deal with the ambiguity.

Is the Bill opposed?

Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.

I would like a copy as well.

I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, which has three Parts and 16 sections. I will reiterate what my colleague has said. It is completely unacceptable there was no pre-legislative scrutiny, notwithstanding that the largest Opposition party agreed with that. It was absolutely essential to have pre-legislative scrutiny. There was also no regulatory impact analysis published. Whether one was done or not I do not know. Neither were the heads of the Bill published. I see the urgency to this in relation to on…

Some 441 approved housing bodies came back. More than 441 approved housing bodies exist and we wonder about accountability and the absence of it. I am talking about all of this in the context of Galway city, which has absolutely no hope to give applicants on the housing waiting list. I am not given to exaggeration. There is absolutely no hope. I have the minutes of the task force. The task force was there since 2019. It was ostensibly set up because we had a crisis. What has happened since is that we have changed t…

Sin deireadh leis an díospóireacht. Is the amendment to the Government's amendment agreed?

Is the Government's amendment to the motion agreed?

A division has been called and will proceed tomorrow night at the weekly division time.

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: Deputy Brian Stanley - To discuss the provision of additional school places, classrooms and resources for St. Francis special school in Portlaoise. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss the regeneration of flats on Clashduv Road, Sycamore Place and Togher Road in Cork. Deputy Neasa Hourigan - To discuss access to naloxone medication. Deputy Pádraig O'Sull…

I am returning to this question again. A number of previous speakers have raised it. I am asking for an update on plans to provide additional student accommodation units for students in Galway; the status and location of the additional 403 and 1,669 planned purpose-built student accommodation spaces. I have read the answers and listened to the responses. I would love to tease this out. What progress is being made on the provision of State-owned, university-owned accommodation for students?

Now that we have dispensed with that response, could we just tease out really where we are going in terms of student accommodation in this country? Are we going to learn from what we did with housing and HAP, which was an absolute disaster, and where we have put in literally millions and billions of euro to keep the market price of homes very high? We have done the same as regards students. I am sure Deputy Collins has an opinion as a Minister of State. I come from a city with two universities and four hospitals. I…

I welcome the fact there were 2,195 public beds. Where, however, is the vision for this area in terms of State-owned student accommodation in order that we can bring the prices down? A market is once again being created for the vulture funds and anyone with money who can then do what they want during the summer, although we have tried to curtail that lately with limits on time. I come from a city where the HAP scheme and all the private schemes have led to a disaster. The housing crisis in Galway is worse than Dubl…

When is the strategy going to be published consequent on that plan?

Next month marks two years since the wonderful announcement of the go-ahead for a proposed new further education college in Galway city. After the announcement, we moved on to the preliminary business case. We all welcomed the announcement. It related to a college for the future, a campus and lifelong learning. My specific question is on the status of the proposed new further education college in Galway city. Has the preliminary business case been completed? Has the evaluation by SOLAS and the Department been compl…