The Deputy is showing absolute disrespect for the Chair and the democratic process. I am going to resume the debate and allow the Minister to continue uninterrupted.

Could the Minister please resume? The time is running out.

There were interruptions on both sides.

Could the Minister finish?

No.

Deputy-----

The debate has concluded.

The debate has concluded. If either side is to start a back-and-forth, it will not be very helpful.

The debate has concluded. The Members should bear with me because there are three motions and three amendments.

There are three motions and three amendments. With the Members' co-operation-----

With the Deputy's co-operation, we are going to see whether a vote emerges. Let us go through the process.

A vote has been called. It will be taken tomorrow night at the usual time.

A vote has been called and will be taken at the voting time tomorrow night.

A vote has been called and will be taken tomorrow night.

Fáiltím roimh an deis a bheith páirteach sa díospóireacht seo. Gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin. Tá an t-ábhar seo agus an rún seo thar a bheith tábhachtach. Baineann sé le cúrsaí sláinte, le heaspa foirne agus leis an gcruachás ina bhfuil ár seirbhísí sláinte faoi láthair. Tá a fhios agam go bhfuil croí an Aire Stáit san áit cheart agus go bhfuil a dícheall á dhéanamh aici chuile lá. Níl aon amhras faoi sin ach tá géarchéim ann le fada an lá. Ní dóigh liom gurb é "géarchéim" an focal ceart i ndáiríre mar tá sé ann ch…

My question is very straightforward. I am asking for the status of the new west regional enterprise plan to 2024.

I thank the Minister of State and I appreciate his answer. IDA Ireland is very important, as is Enterprise Ireland. The Minister of State referred to bottom-up plans. These do not seem to be happening. I welcome that the plan will be published very soon and that it will be published before Christmas. I am thinking, for example, of wool. It has taken donkey's years to get a feasibility study for wool, which has huge possibilities. I am looking at seaweed, on which we still do not have a national policy. It is one of…

I have a concern still on top-down rather than bottom-up if it has taken this long for a Government to commission feasibility studies on wool. There has, therefore, been too much consensus on the way forward as opposed to looking at our assets and how we use them. Anyone with a bit of sense would realise that wool has great value, from insulation to remediation for bogs, just to mention two of its uses. We had public meetings on seaweed but we still do not have a policy on it. These are two indigenous industries bu…

I am following up on the universal basic income and the status of the report from the Low Pay Commission and the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI. Also, has the Minister received any interim reports or is he aware of what international universal basic income pilots have been studied by the Low Pay Commission?

There is no interim report to date. The Minister might ask why I am tabling this question again so soon after September, but I am a little concerned. It is a revolutionary idea. The Government is to be praised for proposing in the programme for Government to have a universal basic income. I am a little worried about the language creep. For example, different words are used. The question the Minister answered for me is on a universal basic income, and rightly so. Then we look at what is planned for the artists. What…